Dew Kim explores the processes through which the body is rewritten at the point where religion, queerness, and the system of regulations collide. Conceiving the body not as a fixed entity but as a ritual site where belief, resistance, and transformation intersect, Kim has been carrying out a boundary-crossing practice that spans sculpture, video, and performance for many years now. Notably, through performative acts such as “becoming an idol/a shaman,” the artist traces the ways in which the body is mythologized and regulated, while borrowing BDSM aesthetics to visualize the subversive tensions embedded in dominance and submission. With narratives of bodies that break down and regenerate on theatrical stages interwoven with popular culture and spiritual symbolism, Kim explores new modes of being and creation that transcend pain.