Corea del Sur, 1976.
Vive y trabaja en Berlín.
Heji Shin
Painted body 01
2010
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
48 x 54 cm
Painted Body (2010) in this series, Shin is implying the process of painting, as well as a form for constructing her image into the photographic process. By incorporating a painterly process, the body in front of the camera, becomes an abstract form, it is objectified, over even fetishized. The poses of the white torso, recall Hellenistic sculptures, while the color palette Shin shows, draws a reference to the record cover of the British band’s Pulp record ‘This is Hardcore’.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Heji Shin
Painted body 02
2010
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
48 x 54 cm
Painted Body (2010) in this series, Shin is implying the process of painting, as well as a form for constructing her image into the photographic process. By incorporating a painterly process, the body in front of the camera, becomes an abstract form, it is objectified, over even fetishized. The poses of the white torso, recall Hellenistic sculptures, while the color palette Shin shows, draws a reference to the record cover of the British band’s Pulp record ‘This is Hardcore’.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Heji Shin
Painted body 03
2010
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
48 x 54 cm
Painted Body (2010) in this series, Shin is implying the process of painting, as well as a form for constructing her image into the photographic process. By incorporating a painterly process, the body in front of the camera, becomes an abstract form, it is objectified, over even fetishized. The poses of the white torso, recall Hellenistic sculptures, while the color palette Shin shows, draws a reference to the record cover of the British band’s Pulp record ‘This is Hardcore’.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Heji Shin
Painted body 04
2010
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
48 x 54 cm
Painted Body (2010) in this series, Shin is implying the process of painting, as well as a form for constructing her image into the photographic process. By incorporating a painterly process, the body in front of the camera, becomes an abstract form, it is objectified, over even fetishized. The poses of the white torso, recall Hellenistic sculptures, while the color palette Shin shows, draws a reference to the record cover of the British band’s Pulp record ‘This is Hardcore’.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Heji Shin
Painted body 05
2010
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
Archival pigment print
48 x 54 cm
Painted Body (2010) in this series, Shin is implying the process of painting, as well as a form for constructing her image into the photographic process. By incorporating a painterly process, the body in front of the camera, becomes an abstract form, it is objectified, over even fetishized. The poses of the white torso, recall Hellenistic sculptures, while the color palette Shin shows, draws a reference to the record cover of the British band’s Pulp record ‘This is Hardcore’.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Heji Shin
Corea del Sur, 1976.
Vive y trabaja en Berlín.
Heji Shin studied in Hamburg moving afterwards to Berlin in the late nineties. Most of Shin’s Photographs are executed for global fashion printed publications and commercial clients. In 2010, Shin’s artistic work was displayed for the first time at Anna-Kathatrina Gebbers gallery, Berlin. In 2012, she photographs the sex education book Make Love, a best-selling photographic guide to sexuality for teenagers.
The images of domestic livestock made up her solo The Great Penetrator at Real Fine Arts gallery, New York City in 2014. For this show, Shin shots camels, horses and zebras of the Zoological Garden in Berlin using a portraiture style similar to the one she commonly employs when photographic actors, writers or models for commercial clients. Heji Shin’s first solo show at Galerie Bernhard continues her investigation into photographic portraiture. In this iteration a hired surrogate replaces the artist in a series of ‘self-portraits’.
On one of her staged studio, she shoots wryly and candidly an ape in current quasi-feminist ideologies of being able to be ‘political’ via any trajectory other than their assigned gender. Using again techniques conventionally applied when photographing people, the photographs of the monkey, parody this very sexualized and aggressive form of feminism. The work from this series was on the cover of the may 2016 issue of ART FORUM.
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Painted Body (2010) in this series, Shin is implying the process of painting, as well as a form for constructing her image into the photographic process. By incorporating a painterly process, the body in front of the camera, becomes an abstract form, it is objectified, over even fetishized. The poses of the white torso, recall Hellenistic sculptures, while the color palette Shin shows, draws a reference to the record cover of the British band’s Pulp record ‘This is Hardcore’.
