The daily strangeness of Ina Jang's photographs

January 01, 2020 at 12:50 p.m.


The daily strangeness of Ina Jang's photographs


Images South Korean artist Ina jang they play with the poetic sense in ways that are familiar to us.

Through cuts and from games with the two-dimensional nature of the photographs, Jang creates other realities.

These games cause us a feeling of strangeness, since we recognize the forms, but we see them outside their usual contexts.

Ina Jang's analogous process brings his practice closer to drawing at the same time as the photographic one.

Also, with its clippings and the discards of other images reconstitute new images.

These are presented as small scenarios of deceptive simplicity before our eyes.

Or as photographs of powerful female absences that reconfigure the notions of desire.

Ina Jang translates photographic references into her own visual language.

In which the apparent discards become important and the misunderstandings They become poetic gestures.
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