Ema Shin is a Japanese-born artist with Korean heritage who lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Her interdisciplinary practice interrogates notions of femininity, sexuality, identity, and womanhood, turning a feminist lens to the erasure of women from historical narratives within her own family, heritage and culture. Absent women are represented in Shin’s works through soft sculpture facsimiles of bodily structures, particularly hearts and reproductive organs. Made from hand-woven tapestry or soft cloth and embellished with beading and needlework, these delicately crafted textile-based works challenge societal norms of gender, art and artistic value. In doing so, they reposition craft as a powerful medium of resistance.