Min J. Shin, Ji Kwon: 우리[woori]
Insurance is a sensible system which is realistically helpful and organized systemically. But it has an ironic point of view that it preserve our health or life with a material payback. At the same time, it gives us insecure if we do not have enough insurance coverage that is totally opposite function of insurance system. Life is full of uncertain things and nobody really can control the future. Which means, nothing is guaranteed but material payback do not assure our meaningful value of lives. So we have thought about what can be an alternative. In conclusion, we think a real insurance is a human resource. A humanity might be a hope.
If we could insure our insecure, anxiety, lack of money, loneliness with human beings, it would be ideal and valuable. Therefore, community can be a good alternative approach. We want to emphasize how important a community is. The more individualism is getting stronger, the more we should think about community, society and family. Because these are our basic groundwork.
How can we establish a precious community? A real community could be achieved in a trust of each other. To establish real belief, we somehow need an endurance and responsibility of others. To build up a good community requires a sincere effort and attention to others who are nearby. To open up our mind is a way to do it.
To visualize our idea and concept, we made Related Paper Dolls in order to express we are one generation and all together. The related paper dolls which are holding their hands together mean that we are the one, even though we all have very different age, gender, personality, race, position, and whatever.
Video: Woori_Roots Click to see the video First part is video. Title is ‘우리, Roots’. This video work is about a symbol of a community. We found a group of trees which have same roots and we installed the related paper dolls we made. The group of trees were really wide and big so we had to made long paper dolls. the length of paper doll was around 15 meters and we spent a lot of time. Then made a short video by time goes by.
Photography: Woori_Roots We hope you could share something we want to express through this work. In the end of the video work, we made a picture. We used some spot lights to make a sort of dreamlike and poetry atmosphere.
Photography: Woori
As we mentioned before, the related paper dolls mean that we are the one, irrespective of age, gender, personality, race and position. We took portraits as a method to make it represent clearly. We had tried to get some pictures of diverse people. The models had the paper dolls on their chest.
Installation: Woori_Tree
What we have tried to do is to deliver our idea through visual language, which means we want to express the concept not directly but as a sort of metaphor.
Thus we made one tree with papers. On this paper tree, you can see the portraits of models who were willingly participated in this project on those cards.
If you open the cards, you can see the words which are replaced word of community for them.