MIMI YOUN

MEMEMIMI (2008-2013)

In this series, I used a Polaroid camera. I cut text into the surface of the Polaroid. Most of the pictures I take look ambiguous and vague because of intentional overexposure; however, marks cut from the photographs look paradoxically strong and painful. Also, I try to express abstraction in my work. Before fixing the image on the surface of Polaroid, during the developing process, I usually alter the surface: bending, shaking or scratching a knife against the surface, so the emulsion under the surface spreads. I focus more on my actions during developing rather than the results of the image. My abstraction coexists with the real images I took as a photographer.