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DATE:<\/strong>\u00a015 MAY- 27 OCTOBER 2021\u00a0LOCATION:\u00a0<\/strong>OUTDOOR EXHIBITION ON J\u00c4RNV\u00c4GSGATAN IN LANDSKRONA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her Pink and Blue Project the South Korean artist JeongMee Yoon<\/a> has spent more than ten years photographing Korean and American girls and boys surrounded by their possessions in their rooms. In their grotesque overload and homogeneity, the photos raise questions about gender stereotypes on the one hand, and about our consumer habits on the other.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

JeongMee Yoon began a series in 2005 that shows how astonishingly successful global marketing has been in promoting this stark color dichotomy, which dominates children\u2019s playrooms from New York City to Seoul. Initially, the photographer merely wanted to document her five-year-old daughter\u2019s fixation on the color pink, and so she arranged all of the pink-colored possessions around her in her realm. This picture was the starting point for The Pink and Blue Project, which Yoon has carried on to this day. Ever since, Yoon has been visiting families with toddlers, mainly in New York City and Seoul, and photographed the children in their bedrooms, surrounded by countless monochromatic objects. The girls and boys almost seem to be swallowed up by the sheer mass of the same old stuff: one princess after the next, with the jarring Hello Kitty and Barbie worlds showing up in girls\u2019 rooms as often as blue action figures and sports items appear in the boys\u2019 rooms. With their arrangements and uniformity, the photographs look more like they are displaying the wares from a toy store rather than the domestic surroundings of a toddler. In addition, the photos show how the symbolic use of color schemes from the earliest age onward leads to the creation of gender identity. By employing a medium format camera and placing the smaller objects in the foreground\u2014the lower half of the photo\u2014the photographer heightens the impression of overflowing rooms. In some of the pictures viewers even need a few seconds before they can clearly identify each child amid all of the things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cWhen I\u2019m photographing, I ask the children to give me the most neutral expression possible. Among the five to eight rolls of film I shoot during each session, I\u2019m looking for the subtle gestures that point out the character of each child,\u201d says Yoon, summarizing her work method.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1969,\u202fJeongMee Yoon\u202fmajored in painting at Seoul National University, Seoul, photography design at Hongik University, Seoul, and studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.  As a winner of the Daum Prize in 2006, she held a successful solo exhibition at Kumho Museum of Art in South Korea, and \u2018The Pink and Blue Project\u2018 book was published by the Parkgeonhi Foundation (Seoul, South Korea) in 2007 and by Hatje Cantz publisher in Germany in 2018, and \u2018Animal Companions\u2019 book was published by IANN publisher (Seoul, South Korea) in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, In 2011, She won the first Prize at The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong with \u2018The Pink & Blue Project II\u2019, and the Ilwoo Photography Award in Seoul, South Korea, in 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n