Mimicking Venus, a project comprised of performance video and sculptural installations, embraces the process of producing Venus sculptures by measuring Shin’s own body. Shin worked with a low-tech pointing machine based on one that was first developed in 1751 by French sculptor Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux. The pointing machine is a measuring device used by sculptors and carvers to make exact replicas of plaster, clay, or wax models in stone or wood. Shin has adapted this device to explore her own body.

In the performance video, she enters the machine and mimics the pose of the Venus sculptures of Greek classicism such as Venus Callipyge, Venus Accroupie, and Capuan Venus. The assistant places the measuring rods at arbitrary points on her body. She struggles to maintain her pose, hindering an exact measurement. Afterward, Shin measures the distance between the points, creates a mold, and casts Venus in plaster. It is no longer a symbol of beauty; rather it becomes a bizarre piece of sculpture. She takes the specificity and contingency of the human body as variable factors to attempt symbolic deviation and change from the norm, such as male-dominated, traditional aesthetics and the notion of the ideal female body.