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barbie shamans by yoon jeong-won at korea DNA
detail view of the piece
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the 'korea DNA' exhibition within prague designblok 2011 featured the works 'fortune' and 'flowers in space' by korean artist
yoon jeong-won. both pieces have a craft-like fantastical, narrative approach in concept as yoon fuses together the ideas of barbie
and the west, with the traditional shamanistic sensibility of traditional and contemporary korean culture.
detailed view of the piece
image © designboom
'fortune' is a ready-made sculpture consisting of 1,000 barbie deities, each individual doll adorned with traditional motifs
found in korean dress and rituals.
conforming to the favorable interaction between the human and spirit world
found in korean shamanic practice, yoon displays the barbies as an incarnation of 'spiritual materialism'. here,
the dolls are representative of the offering made to the spirit world by the human world, addressing the seriousness of
spiritual connection in conjunction with worldly consumption.
detailed view of the piece
image © designboom
'I appropriate a variety of social products and ideas into my work, which is an implicit evocation of social reproduction
and reuse. using a wide range of mediums such as plastic and lego arts, found objects, barbie doll, vintage fashion and
costumes that i have designed, my work may be a representation of a chaotic, kitschy, and fantastic world, and due to
the materials used, blurs and lines between conflicting artworks.' -yoon jeong-won
detailed view of the piece
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wide-view of the piece 'fortune'
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'flowers in space'
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the marriage of the absurd and the mundane is a concept that yoon works with almost exclusively.
'flowers in space' is an imaginative lantern embellished with dolls, yarn, toys and jewelry.
detailed view of 'flowers in space'
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the objective of the show, curated by elane kim, deputy director of the wold jewellery museum and
adjust professor at kyonghee university, college of fine arts, is to open a dialogue on the idea of cultural identity and
representation in contemporary korean art. through korea DNA, the designers engage in a visual conversation with
citizens of the czech republic about the value system pertaining to korean iconographic expression. yoon jeong-won's
collection was one of 25 works featured in the exhibition exploring the concept of aesthetics within korean
visual culture.
lucie koldova + dan yeffet: balloons for brok
with a floating reflector and a body of handmade blown glass, the lights focuses on the volume of a seemingly weightless material.
wearecreative: jewelry city for UNOSTO
the installation reflects the contours of an urban organism, clusters of buildings on the surface with engineered networks of the city underground.
lucie koldova + dan yeffet: muffin lamps
the starting points for the forms of the lighting objects are derived from french boulangeries (bakeries) and combines two natural materials; glass and wood.
barbie recreations of art classics
from bob dylan and marilyn monroe to nefertiti and mona lisa, barbie sits as the model for a photographic and graphic series that juxtaposes modern and antiquated standards of beauty.
mariel clayton: doll photographer with a subv
illustrating the more sinister side of barbie's picturesque life, the collection of photographs depict the doll as an aggressor of a number of gory scenarios, often as on-and-off-again boyfriend ken as the victim.
16W21: model apartment
this ad campaign promoting an upscale residential apartment uses voyeuristic photographs of cosmopolitan dolls living out the ultimate bachelor lifestyle.
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