Photography, Digital Collage, and Moving Images
2019 - Ongoing
Toilet Project
Toilet Project is an accusation of spy cameras in the public toilet and an intervention in image exploitation.
It investigates how one's relationship with public space and how social power dynamics shape a space.
More than 6,000 cases of sexual crime related to spy cameras have been reported a year in South Korea. It is not difficult to find pornography using the footage filed secretly. Fear and anxiety in the lady's room become normal things and shared experiences among women.
I realise myself trying to find suspicious objects or tiny holes in the wall in every toilet, in every country I visit. Remembering the tissues blocking peepholes, probably a random lady put them for herself and anyone who will use this toilet after her, I aim to stop normalising this issue and to be rather resentful.
The project suggests ridiculous and ironic situations; wearing more layers to use toilets, covering the body with a mosaic panel made of photos of body parts or toilet papers printed with body parts. The props are speculative but they indicate the problems, power dynamics in real-life public spaces.
* Photography in collaboration with Eunbee Chung.