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REIMAGINED HEIRLOOMS - Maya Kini


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REIMAGINED HEIRLOOMS - Maya Kini

May 07 - June 27

SHIBUMI GALLERY is pleased to present Reimagined Heirlooms featuring artist, poet, and alchemist Maya Kini.

Kini’s work—both in language and in three dimensions—explores the concept of metamorphosis—little resistance as it is moved from one form to another—and the changing value of objects as they are transformed and imbued with meaning through exchange, often outlasting their makers.

Concerned with her impact as an artist adding more to the ever-expanding world of things, she often focuses attention on what an object can become after being subjected to a series of physical transformations like burning, melting, and hammering.

Kini uses recycled materials in her work, instilling them with new life and new meaning, but with regard for their past histories. In her work, she is drawn to the way things become altered with wear and the mutual influence of the wearer and piece. Kini aims to prompt reflection on the significance of material objects, and the meanings we imbue them with. *

MAYA KINI is a visual artist, poet and mother of two who lives in San Francisco. She has a BA in Spanish Literature from Reed College and an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Wildfire and Current Obsession.

* Text prepared by students in the Gallery as Laboratory class at Mills College, Fall 2021