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Sharon Ko

SHARON KO
The Undoing
Film photography, video, and installation
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What does liberation look like when our individual and collective bodies, minds, and spirits experience oppression in a broken and unjust world? While interviewing fourteen women from different generations and backgrounds, I asked them each to reflect on their own journeys, from oppression to freedom. Over the course of multiple conversations and photo sessions, each woman chose a concrete object to represent their oppression(s) and physically embody their journey towards liberation. Each person titled their portion of the project, responding to the question: “What is freedom to you?”

My artistic process mirrors this intricate, holistic journey. The intimate and interdisciplinary processes of hand-developed and printed black and white film photography, text, video montage, and installation encapsulate the multi-faceted nature of each person’s story in light of the collective whole. As the artist, I reveal my own embodied exploration, as I both observe and partake in the storytelling of other women’s journeys by way of mixed-media documentation. I investigate the private and public, personal and systemic, ephemeral and permanent, spiritual and physical aspects of oppression and liberation through the limits and generosity of visual narrative. 

-Sharon K
 

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