{"product_id":"story-kim-sajik","title":"Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStory\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first photobook by Kim Sajik, an artist from Kyoto whose work starts from the uncertainty of her own identity in the Korean diaspora. Over ten years she made carefully staged photographs on questions of ethnicity, nationality and gender. Published by Akaaka Art Publishing in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe story behind the book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer images blend Asian mythology with references to Western art history. They touch the roots of existence, cross time and species, and dig up everyday life and emotion. Gender, the family system, religion, history: in a world full of these pressures, the book asks where to stand and how to go on living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStory is not a plot with a beginning and an end. It unfolds across many times and places in photographs and words, in Japanese, Korean and English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat is in the book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStaged photographs with texts in three languages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA cover in vivid red and blue, front and back reversed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn exposed spine where red and blue threads show like wounds, or like stitches closing a gap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout Kim Sajik\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Kyoto, Kim Sajik makes staged photographs of invented stories. Alongside photography she studies traditional Korean dance, exploring what can grow from the trauma passed down through generations of the diaspora. She received the Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize (Encouragement Award) in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kim Sajik","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67711946850530,"sku":null,"price":6050.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/9174\/1154\/files\/E7_89_A9_E8_AA_9Ecover01s.jpg?v=1792135599","url":"https:\/\/tenten-inc.jp\/products\/story-kim-sajik","provider":"TENTEN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}