Red Room
Enteritis:inflammation of the intestine, especially the small intestine, usually accompanied by diarrhea. My mother was hospitalized in 2015 because she tried to become a body that she was not. Especially she suffered Enteritis from diet pills. Body image consciousness is a trained social phenomenon. The Diet Pillexplores the experience of applying standardized beauty to one’s own body. Using four strobing lighting affects, advertisement images, frames, and red light.
The feminine beauty ideal is "the socially constructed notion that physical attractiveness is one of women's most important assets, and something all women should strive to achieve and maintain". Specifically, in Korea, middle and high-class women compete to have better body shape. Because popular culture push idea of having skinny body shape, people are willing to take photos of their bodies and upload on social community to be acknowledged.
The relationship between the doors and beauty standard comes in to play when the two doors open to a marrow width only certain people who fit in beauty standard are able to get in. The doors had to be real life size so the viewers can question themselves rather they are able to go in or not. I built a space by installing doors in corner of the room and left empty to raise curiosity. The doors in the corner created a feeling of tight space, so it seems only certain amount of people are able to get in. During the critique, Stella commented that being in the space is actually comfortable. I think this comment give the idea of people who fits in beauty standard would feel comfortable being in the circle, but also they have to struggle to remain in the circle.
Four images project silhouette of women and celebrities who fit beauty standard. Especially in the culture where I came from, in Korea, celebrities appear in advertisement to promote better body shape. Growing up in the environment where many people were willing to take diet pills to lose weight, I felt inconvenience from their thinking. I think individuals do not need to change their appearance because of other people’s eyes; however, advertisements create beauty standard for people, women particularly, to follow. The video was a first visual to the audience so they could feel uncomfortable by the rapid change of the image. The repetition and looping of the video promoted advertisements of beauty standard in media for many years. The video was stroking, bewilderment, hypnotized so it brings attention to matter.
When audiences interact with the piece, realization of if they fit a certain standard would occur. The audiences could break away that beauty standard by going in any frames or just not try to get in any of those entrances byaccepting who they are.For some people, they do not think that fitting in the beauty standard is important. However, these people who stress about fitting in the beauty standard would do what ever to fit in. These people who do care would buy diet pills and harm their bodies to lose weight but they should be aware of the consequence of going to hospital due to impractical diet plan. I used red light to createoverall mood of the piece, which gives an awareness of the danger of fitting in. The red room gave the sense of freakiness, mystery, and eerie; some students commented that it is scared to enter and preferred not going in the space.
The frames in the installation were the devices of people breaking the beauty standard. There were also scattered wood pieces on the floor because I wanted the frame to be broken doors. By breaking the doors, the action would be desire of entering the space where only certain people are allowed to enter; therefore, people are able to go across the frame and enter the space.
For the final, I want to amplify the idea of deny of beauty standard. The only thing holding back regular-looking women is their belief that looking regular holds them back at all. When the person has high self-esteem, then the person would not be self-conscious.
The feminine beauty ideal is "the socially constructed notion that physical attractiveness is one of women's most important assets, and something all women should strive to achieve and maintain". Specifically, in Korea, middle and high-class women compete to have better body shape. Because popular culture push idea of having skinny body shape, people are willing to take photos of their bodies and upload on social community to be acknowledged.
The relationship between the doors and beauty standard comes in to play when the two doors open to a marrow width only certain people who fit in beauty standard are able to get in. The doors had to be real life size so the viewers can question themselves rather they are able to go in or not. I built a space by installing doors in corner of the room and left empty to raise curiosity. The doors in the corner created a feeling of tight space, so it seems only certain amount of people are able to get in. During the critique, Stella commented that being in the space is actually comfortable. I think this comment give the idea of people who fits in beauty standard would feel comfortable being in the circle, but also they have to struggle to remain in the circle.
Four images project silhouette of women and celebrities who fit beauty standard. Especially in the culture where I came from, in Korea, celebrities appear in advertisement to promote better body shape. Growing up in the environment where many people were willing to take diet pills to lose weight, I felt inconvenience from their thinking. I think individuals do not need to change their appearance because of other people’s eyes; however, advertisements create beauty standard for people, women particularly, to follow. The video was a first visual to the audience so they could feel uncomfortable by the rapid change of the image. The repetition and looping of the video promoted advertisements of beauty standard in media for many years. The video was stroking, bewilderment, hypnotized so it brings attention to matter.
When audiences interact with the piece, realization of if they fit a certain standard would occur. The audiences could break away that beauty standard by going in any frames or just not try to get in any of those entrances byaccepting who they are.For some people, they do not think that fitting in the beauty standard is important. However, these people who stress about fitting in the beauty standard would do what ever to fit in. These people who do care would buy diet pills and harm their bodies to lose weight but they should be aware of the consequence of going to hospital due to impractical diet plan. I used red light to createoverall mood of the piece, which gives an awareness of the danger of fitting in. The red room gave the sense of freakiness, mystery, and eerie; some students commented that it is scared to enter and preferred not going in the space.
The frames in the installation were the devices of people breaking the beauty standard. There were also scattered wood pieces on the floor because I wanted the frame to be broken doors. By breaking the doors, the action would be desire of entering the space where only certain people are allowed to enter; therefore, people are able to go across the frame and enter the space.
For the final, I want to amplify the idea of deny of beauty standard. The only thing holding back regular-looking women is their belief that looking regular holds them back at all. When the person has high self-esteem, then the person would not be self-conscious.