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In her upcoming show, photographer Shin Hye-sun
presents images of families ¡ª images that are "unfamiliar"
for their own good. The faces that are looking back at us in her
photographs are not homogeneous, if you will, because they represent
the "multicultural family," a social phenomenon that is
being increasingly noted in Korean society due to the growing number
of international marriages. The pictures challenge our idea of what
a traditional Korean family should look like in a family photo.
But the inexplicable unfamiliarity in Shin's pieces has less to
do with the multiethnic and multicultural aspects of the families.
The "mysterious" quality is deeply rooted in the photographer's
peculiar artistic perspective of multicultural families. Her camera
captures the models, seemingly awkward and unfamiliar-looking, with
an utterly normal and familiar eye. And it is this duality ¡ª unfamiliarity
wrapped up in familiar ambience ¡ª that evokes that particular feeling
of oddity we feel drawn to when we look into her pictures. Exactly
what message, then, does the artist try to convey with her familiarity-vs-unfamiliarity
experiment with family photos?
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There are three levels of meaning hidden in
the message that Shin intends to portray in her family photos. First,
information. Photographic images first and foremost offer factual
information about the model or models, thanks to the matter-of-fact
re-creating ability of the genre. The objective function of camera
applies to Shin's works as well. From her family portrayals, we
immediately notice faces that provoke our curiosity ¡ª unfamiliar,
foreign faces of immigrant wives ¡ª and obtain information on the
ethnicity and physiognomy of Southeast Asian people. The women's
costumes, body language and gestures also provide us a clue to the
culture and history of countries lying across the ocean, where the
women were born and raised.
But factual information is not limited to the wives. Their faces,
naturally, make contrast to those of their Korean husbands standing
and posing next to them within the same camera frame. The contrast
in the pictures open our eyes to the physiognomic characteristics
of Korean males ¡ª something we hardly ever observe or think about
because we are so used to them. And the familiar-yet-somehow-unfamiliar
feature we newly discover, as photographer August Sander puts it,
allows us to ponder upon the mysteries of faces in general as well
as the inseparable relationship between faces and a social class
that they represent. Take the weather-beaten faces of the Korean
husbands for example. The men in Shin's pictures seem to testify
to the ups and downs of life. Looking at the faces, can you possibly,
and successfully, argue that they have nothing to do with the socio-economic
status of their owners?
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The second level of meaning we can read from
Shin Hye-sun's photographic message is society or the influence
of society which is interpreted through our negative prejudice against
cross-cultural marriages ¡ª the biased view existing within the direct,
factual view. Given the wide-spread social bias that international
couples, collectively speaking, are still viewed negatively in Korea,
our opinion of Shin's multicultural family models cannot be too
different. For example, when we look at an affectionately-cuddling
couple in one of Shin's photos, we think of things based on our
bias against international marriage, such as the real motive or
reason behind their union, and the kinds of economic "give-and-take,"
instead of "love," that might have dominated their courtship
which has ultimately led to their wedding. We ask those questions
as we gaze into their faces. Not only that, we make our own predictions
as to how their marriage might end, with our mind busy with images
of one of those shocking, blatant road-side placards saying, "Your
bride won't run away, ever!"
But there is something else to which we really should pay attention.
We need to think twice about the kind of interpretation described
above, which entails our distorted collective consciousness playing
a trick on our view of international marriage, about the origin
of such bias rooted deeply in our consciousness. The fact is our
collective prejudice has been molded and reinforced by media-portrayed
abstract ideas, not by our own concrete experiences. In other words,
as we read into the collectively-biased social-level message hidden
in Shin's family photos, we get to realize the utter lack of independence
and autonomy of our own consciousness and the sheer groundlessness
of our negative view of multicultural families.
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Lastly, there is the human-level of meaning
in Shin's photographic message. Yes, we will probably view the photos
with negativity at first. But there will also be human-level elements
that will bring us back to the images, letting us appreciate them
from a positive viewpoint. The elements are none other than dynamics
between the two figures who dominate the structure of the frame,
or more specifically, the backdrop of the picture and the poses
of each model.
First, the backdrops. Shin's camera focuses on uniformly shabby,
unglamorous backdrops, be they indoor or outdoor locations. That
particular quality of the backdrops makes it easier for viewers
to suspect that the families in the pictures are probably living
a poor, underprivileged lives, ones that are not too different from
the background against which they are posing. Nevertheless, all
the models ¡ª the poor, shabby-looking couples ¡ª whom we see in Shin's
pictures are posing in a such a way that they glow with innocent
love and pride. For instance, we are impressed by the loving couple,
sitting in the lawn, putting arms around each other's shoulders,
blissful despite their seemingly large age difference. Also, think
of the smiling face of a young woman who is looking toward the camera,
with both of her hands placed on her belly. (She was hanging out
the wash before she posed.) She is staring right into the camera,
exposing her huge belly. How good-natured her smile is! How bold
and proud her pregnant self is!
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