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The Lonely Game
This is a photographic project about the memory of my adolescence. I restored the winter that I was isolated by my peers by taking photographs of my junior high school in both realism and surrealism. I doubted that my painful experience in memory whether a real bully caused by others' adolescent rebellion or a self-directed and self-performed lonely game. When I was in 9th grade, there was a popular game called 'The Invisible People': people in the game take turns being the invisible person who could not talk to anyone, and the one who remains silent for the longest time is the winner. Probably because of the game, I was isolated by my classmates. Since no one could talk to, I invented a friend named 'Little Gun', to whom I often wrote letters. Little Gun accompanied me through my lonely adolescence, and he died in the summer when I graduated from junior high school.
Everyone has unique traumatic memories of adolescence. These memories are like bruises in the blind area of sight, which are difficult to be cured. Through the project, I try to answer the question that was asked at the beginning and push myself to face those forgotten pain of growing up and try to heal them.
Handmade Book
Medium: Photo book in a handmade plastic bag.
Size: 92 pages, 40cm×29.7cm×1cm.
Link: https://youtu.be/uVABGEJeq_U