A undertaking exploring gender identification and the strain to adapt in modern South Korea by Polish-British photographer and filmmaker Marcin T. Jozefiak. Working between Berlin and Seoul, Jozefiak’s apply attends to the methods people negotiate inside altering social and cultural environments. “Fearless Flowers” concerned twenty-three members in South Korea over a two-year interval, analyzing the strain between self-definition and the social expectations that form how our bodies are allowed to exist.
“Every portrait developed by means of dialog and collaboration. Flowers have been individually chosen for every individual getting into the studio and positioned in dialogue with their physique. Historically related to magnificence, femininity, fragility and transience, right here they resist belonging to any explicit gender. They conceal and expose, soften and disrupt, turning into extensions of the folks photographed. The undertaking intentionally strikes between tenderness and confrontation. Our bodies are mirrored, obscured, certain, fragmented or introduced with out safety. Masculinity can turn into weak; femininity can reject expectations of magnificence; gender can turn into ambiguous. Fairly than trying to find a hard and fast or simply readable identification, the images create an area through which contradictions can coexist.”
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