bunsu
2025 | Group Exhibition | Swimming Pool Gallery, Berlin
Exhibition: Nov 28 – Dec 23, 2025
Venue: Swimming Pool Gallery, Berlin
Artists: Jina Shin, Hyeran Jang, SAMI
Jina Shin participated in the group exhibition bunsu, held at Swimming Pool Gallery in Berlin in 2025.
Swimming Pool Gallery temporarily transformed itself into “water,” emphasizing physicality through tactile sensation and employing a formal device that intertwined the exhibition space with the artworks. As cultural theorist Astrida Neimanis writes in Bodies of Water, “Water extends embodiment in time—body, to body, to body.” In this sense, water becomes an agent that links human bodies to those of animals, plants, and the planet, prompting a rethinking of how bodies exist in relational entanglement.
bunsu—meaning “fountain” in Korean—covered the gallery floor with blue carpeting, evoking a submerged environment. The installations rose like streams erupting from a fountain, drawing the space into a shared emotional and temporal field. Moments of life and death, departure and return, desire and pain rippled across the exhibition, proposing an entanglement of multiple selves across different temporalities.
Within this collective environment, Jina Shin presented works that explore ritualistic, spiritual, and corporeal structures of the body.
Her video work Mudra as hunger engages with Buddhist hand gestures, incorporating intentional glitches that function as markers of bodily imperfection—sites of rupture, vulnerability, and transformation.
In the hyper-realistic sculptures Spine Choir, an inverted anatomical form from ribs to spine encloses a dense black substance, materializing invisible organs alongside the emotions and memories embedded within them. The work suggests that, much like vessels holding water, our bodies carry layered temporalities and narrative sediments.
Mudra as hunger
1-channel video installation | 7 min | Sound Wall-mounted installation | 2025
Spine Choir
Resin | silicone | mixed media (stainless steel, acrylic) | 170 × 50 × 45 cm | 2025
bunsu
2025 | Group Exhibition | Swimming Pool Gallery, Berlin
Exhibition: Nov 28 – Dec 23, 2025
Venue: Swimming Pool Gallery, Berlin
Artists: Jina Shin, Hyeran Jang, SAMI
Jina Shin participated in the group exhibition bunsu, held at Swimming Pool Gallery in Berlin in 2025.
Swimming Pool Gallery temporarily transformed itself into “water,” emphasizing physicality through tactile sensation and employing a formal device that intertwined the exhibition space with the artworks. As cultural theorist Astrida Neimanis writes in Bodies of Water, “Water extends embodiment in time—body, to body, to body.” In this sense, water becomes an agent that links human bodies to those of animals, plants, and the planet, prompting a rethinking of how bodies exist in relational entanglement.
bunsu—meaning “fountain” in Korean—covered the gallery floor with blue carpeting, evoking a submerged environment. The installations rose like streams erupting from a fountain, drawing the space into a shared emotional and temporal field. Moments of life and death, departure and return, desire and pain rippled across the exhibition, proposing an entanglement of multiple selves across different temporalities.
Within this collective environment, Jina Shin presented works that explore ritualistic, spiritual, and corporeal structures of the body.
Her video work Mudra as hunger engages with Buddhist hand gestures, incorporating intentional glitches that function as markers of bodily imperfection—sites of rupture, vulnerability, and transformation.
In the hyper-realistic sculptures Spine Choir, an inverted anatomical form from ribs to spine encloses a dense black substance, materializing invisible organs alongside the emotions and memories embedded within them. The work suggests that, much like vessels holding water, our bodies carry layered temporalities and narrative sediments.
Mudra as hunger
1-channel video installation | 7 min | Sound Wall-mounted installation | 2025
Spine Choir
Resin | silicone | mixed media (stainless steel, acrylic) | 170 × 50 × 45 cm | 2025