Biography
Miki Lin studied art at the Institute for Artistic Ceramics and Glass in Koblenz. Born in New York, the artist is concerned with the perception and reception of writing and structure. With calligraphic precision, she imitates daily newspapers or maps in her drawings with ink on paper, abstracting the information and typefaces of the originals in such a way that the original information on these papers becomes illegible. What remains is the impression of the beauty of the printed type, the typeface or the outlines of a map. Like a stranger, one looks at the alphabet, which Miki Lin has reinvented by alienating and simplifying it. The function of the newspaper as a medium of information is counteracted. Thus, in the drawing entitled 'SZ, 11 September 2001', only the memory inscribed in our collective memory of the headlines and images of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, which occurred on that day, presents itself. The event exists in our imagination and the scale of the horror fades into reality.
