Min Kim Park

Photographer
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Location: Indiana
Nationality: Korea
Biography: Min Kim Park Born in South Korea, Min Kim Park explores issues surrounding gender, ethnicity and identity using performance, video, photography, sound and video installation. Park’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally... MORE
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Copyright Min Kim Park 2024
Updated Jan 2015
Topics Conceptual, Feminish, Fine Art, Photography, Women's Rights

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work investigates the notion of the millennium feminist artistic practice from the perspective of an Asian Immigrant artist with a journalist background. Consumer and popular culture encroach on the terrain of so-called ‘female freedom,’ appearing supportive of female success yet tying women into new, post-feminist, neurotic dependencies. With a scathing critique of 'women's empowerment’ and assuming the role of creator that is also a voyeur and an spectator, my work examines sociocultural phenomena embedded in contemporary women's lives: from fashion/commercial photography and the reality television 'make-over' genre of entertainment to body anxiety and 'illegible rage'. My work argues that invidious forms of gender re-stabilization are being colored by consumer and popular culture in unprecedented ways, while at the same time incorporating and reappraising the crafts, the home made, and even the clichés. I continued to examine contradictions and reciprocities between feminism, art and media culture: engaging as they go in theoretical and critical conversations about contemporary media culture, feminist spectatorship in art and, above all the politics of visual pleasure.

 

 

 

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