Nikki S. Lee — Parts
First Edition, Hague Cantz, Germany, 2005
The Korean artist Nikki S. Lee became internationally known for snapshot-style photographs in which she assumes a wide variety of ethnic and cultural personas.
Lee always puts the viewer in a confrontative position with their own public personality, or what C. G. Jung would called the “persona”, the mask we wear in public in order to impose a certain image about us. The way the artist manages to make people doubt about subcultural aesthetics of any kind can be a very hard to swallow project for many. In this one, called “Parts”, Nikki S. Lee focuses her work on her own persona instead of other ones, presenting a serie of images where she is always the main character (and if she is not, the picture is cropped so she is the only person in it) creating a very wide range of identities associated to a same face, that suddenly change completely depending of different contexts and varied haircuts or outfits.
Courtesy of Agent Delamort
First Edition, Hague Cantz, Germany, 2005
The Korean artist Nikki S. Lee became internationally known for snapshot-style photographs in which she assumes a wide variety of ethnic and cultural personas.
Lee always puts the viewer in a confrontative position with their own public personality, or what C. G. Jung would called the “persona”, the mask we wear in public in order to impose a certain image about us. The way the artist manages to make people doubt about subcultural aesthetics of any kind can be a very hard to swallow project for many. In this one, called “Parts”, Nikki S. Lee focuses her work on her own persona instead of other ones, presenting a serie of images where she is always the main character (and if she is not, the picture is cropped so she is the only person in it) creating a very wide range of identities associated to a same face, that suddenly change completely depending of different contexts and varied haircuts or outfits.
Courtesy of Agent Delamort
First Edition, Hague Cantz, Germany, 2005
The Korean artist Nikki S. Lee became internationally known for snapshot-style photographs in which she assumes a wide variety of ethnic and cultural personas.
Lee always puts the viewer in a confrontative position with their own public personality, or what C. G. Jung would called the “persona”, the mask we wear in public in order to impose a certain image about us. The way the artist manages to make people doubt about subcultural aesthetics of any kind can be a very hard to swallow project for many. In this one, called “Parts”, Nikki S. Lee focuses her work on her own persona instead of other ones, presenting a serie of images where she is always the main character (and if she is not, the picture is cropped so she is the only person in it) creating a very wide range of identities associated to a same face, that suddenly change completely depending of different contexts and varied haircuts or outfits.
Courtesy of Agent Delamort
Product Details
Page count: 86
Product dimensions: 11.3 (l) x 9.4 (w)
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Good, spine has some wear.
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