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Jinhee Bae is an emerging photographer in South Korea, and has worked in popular culture, film and helped produce visual artwork for publications and musical projects. [Click photos to enlarge] | |
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| Her exhibit "Sharing Commoness", a series of twenty prints, taken from an extensive collection of studied shots and large-size prints, shown in Swiss Cottage, London, explores the nuances of living in a shared space, and the humanity which emerges from the tensions and comfort of candid moments among people whose habits and tastes one knows intimately. | ||
Jinhee Bae was born in Seoul in the mid-70s. In South Korea, this generation is often perceived as being the “gifted generation”, certainly well and lovingly nurtured, yet with the hail and brimstone of war etched on their consciousnesses. A generation intended to rise like phoenixes from these ashes with stories to tell, to frame the past for posterity, and to forge a new cultural identity of a rising power.Undoubtedly Jinhee is among the privileged generation that grew up with ‘colour’ television. As a 70s child, Jinhee’s perception of life is inevitably different from her parents’. They have had much more individual attention and have been allowed to indulge their whims and follow their fancy. Jinhee’s core interest is people and she reads their emotional statuses, characters and lives through her lens. She catches moments of unconsciousness. There is no pretense or staging in her photography. Initially her corpus is visually vivid and striking. Yet, underneath the blaze of bold and abundant colour, the main subjects have the look of subjects that never wanted to be photographed. The scenes are unglamorous and exactingly realistic.This realism suggests that these 70s children are confident enough to dispense with convention and social norms of ‘presentability’. The subjects are all seemingly existing in the “post-war comfort zone”. Yet, beneath the veneer of multi-coloured ordinariness there are allusions to life long dramas, to quirky truths and to conflicts beyond the images. The images are not fictitious but real stories of human-beings striving to find freedom and purpose yet delimited still by certain cultural boundaries and ultimately the oppression of space. [More text and information online at: www.HeejinNo.com] |
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