Hye Min Kim

"There are many kinds of power, used and unused acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling." By Audre Lord.

My project is a story of myself and my friends. When I started this project, I interviewed very dominant people in their image and asked about their social perspective as a woman. I had explored what makes them feel uncomfortable, when they feel and how they show a defense mechanism. It has been a part of our life, the gazes we have constantly feeling in our lives.

In the interview, I can realize that even they are dominant women who are very out of the norm in society, they cannot be free from the social gaze. They suffer from the gaze in their life and try to escape their way from it. In particular, when talking about sexuality, the thinking of gender in clothes and objects is ultimately related to the social gaze. So, if the object or clothes embody erotism, it causes a stronger social rejection in Korea. These gazes are the beings that I could not escape in my life, and eventually, it makes to hide women's eyes and consciousness. 

This project is a narrative about my life; I believe it is the story of all of us. I think that the sexual culture we think should be consumed in the female culture, after all. If we can confidently show the image that women have, we can create a culture of arbitrary consumption for female consumers and escape from this repressive confinement. Through the project, I want to create a new perspective in which women themselves being looked at.