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unusualmusic_lj_archiveArtist to watch:Chan-Hyo Bae
“The sun never sets over the British Empire.” The country of Queen, the country with pride in her history and tradition, still seems to be breathing in Great Britain. I try to become British just as a child pretends to be a mother by dressing in her clothes and making up with her cosmetics. The attempt to become British is to me what a child tries to do in dressing as an adult. Although the mother’s clothes are unsuitable for the child, the child still tries to dress as its mother, trying to express its existence as another person. The language of a child. In becoming a British lady, which may seem gauche, it is my language.”
Chan-Hyo Bae is a South Korean born artist and photographer living in London. His work examines how we look at gender, power, race and class.
The image above is a part of “Existing in Costume,” a series of self-portraits in period costumes that comment on his experience assimilating himself into British culture - he’s lived and worked in London since 2004.
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“The sun never sets over the British Empire.” The country of Queen, the country with pride in her history and tradition, still seems to be breathing in Great Britain. I try to become British just as a child pretends to be a mother by dressing in her clothes and making up with her cosmetics. The attempt to become British is to me what a child tries to do in dressing as an adult. Although the mother’s clothes are unsuitable for the child, the child still tries to dress as its mother, trying to express its existence as another person. The language of a child. In becoming a British lady, which may seem gauche, it is my language.”Chan-Hyo Bae is a South Korean born artist and photographer living in London. His work examines how we look at gender, power, race and class.
The image above is a part of “Existing in Costume,” a series of self-portraits in period costumes that comment on his experience assimilating himself into British culture - he’s lived and worked in London since 2004.
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