CLOTHESLINE (WHITE OXFORD SHIRTS), 2003

Jean Shin: Clothesline (White Oxford Shirts)

The artist has reduced the series of white Oxford shirts to their collars, cuffs, buttons, and seams. Shin stitched the shirts together side by side suggesting a clothesline. Oxford shirts are the staple of the white-collar uniform, but these emptied shirts form a kind of endless and perhaps replaceable workforce all lined up. In Clothesline, the figure is absent; only the ghostly traces of the skeletal structure remain.

Cut fabric (shirt remnants) and thread
4 ft h x 12.5 ft w

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