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In this series of recent works, Shay Kun uses strategies of reproduction and editing to turn aerial views of poor neighborhoods around the world into geometric systems of labyrinths, underscoring the gap between their visually pleasing, two-dimensional representation and their reality as three-dimensional infernos. We have grown accustomed to drawing conclusions about existence in the lived sphere based on our own flattened perception. In this series, Kun is reducing the three-dimensional urban plight of modern cities to two dimensional paintings thereby simplifying our rendering of these …