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Against Foodporn Project


Along with the development of various media including SNS (Social Networking Service) in the contemporary society, photographing and posting food pictures on SNS with Hash tag #Foodporn became a trend. The artist had been wondered about the phenomenon.

"I started to question why this unnatural behavior of taking and showing pictures of delicious looking food was developed. I thought that a nickname 'Food porn' was not merely given to photographing food with making its looks deliciously but closely connected to an industrial structure of pornography."

There are persons who take pictures and post foodporn, watch and find consolation from it, and make efforts to see it. Such a phenomenon and a structure remind us of pornography producers showing women beautifully and the audience that self soothe themselves by watching it. Through the work, the artist wants to inform us that the modern human beings are naturally engaging in the action 'displaying objects beautifully and getting satisfaction from doing it.' and question about the phenomenon.

Contemporary people who living in cities are continuously and unconsciously exposed to various images. We are exposed not only through the SNS but also the large electronic billboards. Repetitive images from an electronic billboard reminds me of Food porn and contemporary people photographing and posting images repeatedly. Advertisements of electronic billboards and SNS activities like 'Food porn' reveal the aspect of the obsessional contemporary society.

My video works are divided into two, day and night through a medium of an electronic billboard to be seen as a broken screen.During the day time, black-and-white food photos by excessively closed-up making it difficult to be recognized as food are transmitted slowly like a still frame. In the afternoon, the action of eating food is repetitively and quickly delivered. Together with anti-food porn images from video, the electronic billboard shows seemingly erroneous images as if an invader declares to urbanites.

It makes us feel that both subjects, a city exposing images constantly and contemporary people photographing, posting, and seeing directed images of Food porn are repeating obsessional acts in a similar way.

<Against Foodporn Project>

1. Uncanny Foodporn, Single channel video, Black and White, 1920ร—1080pixels, 1minute loop, 2017

2. Foodporn Glitch, Single channel video, Color, 1296ร—894pixels, 1minute loop, 2017

Those videos were exhibited during two days as a guerrilla show in Gangnam, Seoul, Korea.

Stills from โ€˜Foodporn Glitchโ€™ , Single channel video, Color, 1296ร—894pixels, 1minute loop, 2017

ํ˜„๋Œ€์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Ÿฌ SNS๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋งค์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์Œ์‹์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ฐ์–ด ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๊ฐ€ ์œ ํ–‰์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค. ์‹œ๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ต‰์žฅํžˆ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด ๋ณด์ด๋„๋ก ์ดฌ์˜ํ•œ ์Œ์‹ ์‚ฌ์ง„์—๋Š” โ€˜food pornโ€™ ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ•ด์‰ฌํƒœ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ™์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€์— ๋“ค์–ด์™€์„œ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์Œ์‹์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด ๋ณด์ด๊ฒŒ ์ฐ๊ณ , ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ–‰์œ„๊ฐ€ ๊ต‰์žฅํžˆ ๋ถ€์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋Š๊ปด์กŒ๊ณ  ์™œ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์„๊นŒํ•˜๋Š” ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด ๋ณด์ด๋„๋ก ์ฐ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋กœ๋งŒ โ€˜food pornโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ณ„๋ช…์ด ๋ถ™์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋‚˜๋Š” ์Œ์‹์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๊ฐ€ ํฌ๋ฅด๋…ธ๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฐ์—…๊ตฌ์กฐ์™€ ๊นŠ์€ ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ง›์žˆ๊ณ , ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›Œ ๋ณด์ด๊ฒŒ ์Œ์‹์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ฐ๊ณ , ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ปํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„์ž์™€ ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์œ„์•ˆ์„ ์–ป๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค. ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ์Œ์‹์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ ์ฐพ์•„์„œ ๋ณด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค, ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํ˜„์ƒ์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์„ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ํฌ๋ฅด๋…ธ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ž๊ธฐ์œ„๋กœ๋ฅผ ์–ป๋Š” ๊ด€๋žŒ์ž๋“ค์„ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์Œ์‹์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์—ฐ์ถœํ•ด ์ฐ๊ณ  ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ ‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‚˜๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€์ธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ ์†์— ๋‹ด๊ฒจ์žˆ๋Š” โ€˜์‚ฌ๋ฌผ์„ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„โ€™์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋ฌผ์Œ์„ ๋˜์ง€๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค.

๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€์ธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฌด์˜์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜๋ฉฐ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ„๋‹ค. SNS๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ˜•์ „๊ด‘ํŒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์˜ˆ์™ธ ์—†์ด ๋…ธ์ถœ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ „๊ด‘ํŒ์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด Foodporn์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ œ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ์ถœ๋œ ์‚ฌ์ง„, ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋“ค์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐ๊ณ , ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€์ธ์˜ ํ–‰์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ์ „๊ด‘ํŒ์˜ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋“ค๊ณผ foodporn๊ฐ™์€ snsํ™œ๋™์ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•์ ์ธ ํ˜„๋Œ€์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๋ฉด๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค.

์ „๊ด‘ํŒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‚ฎ๊ณผ ๋ฐค ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์˜์ƒ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด, ๋งˆ์น˜ ๊ณ ์žฅ ๋‚œ ํ™”๋ฉด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๋„๋ก ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‚ฎ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ์—๋Š” ํ‘๋ฐฑ์‚ฌ์ง„์œผ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์—… ๋˜์–ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ์Œ์‹์ธ์ง€ ์•Œ์•„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ํ‘๋ฐฑ ์Œ์‹ ์‚ฌ์ง„๋“ค์„ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์ •์ง€ํ™”๋ฉด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋Š๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ์†ก์ถœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜คํ›„ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ์€ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์„ ๋งค์šฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜foodporn์ ์ธ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜ค๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€๋‚œ ๋“ฏ ํ•œ ๋Š๋‚Œ์˜ ์˜์ƒ์ด ์ „๊ด‘ํŒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งˆ์น˜ ์นจ๋žต์ž๊ฐ€ ๋„์‹œ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์„ ํฌํ•˜๋“ฏ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋“ค์„ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์ฃผ์ž…์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋…ธ์ถœ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋„์‹œ๋ผ๋Š” ์ฃผ์ฒด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Foodporn์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ์ถœ๋œ ์‚ฌ์ง„, ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋“ค์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐ๊ณ , ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋ณด๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€์ธ ์ด ๋‘ ์ฃผ์ฒด ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•์ ์ธ ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์กด์žฌ๋กœ ๋Š๋ผ๋„๋ก ํ•œ๋‹ค.

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