BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty
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Hye Rim Lee
b.1963
Title
BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty
Details
| Production Date | 2004 |
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| Collection(s) | Collection Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. Purchased with funds donated by the TSB Community Trust to the Govett-Brewster Foundation, 2005. |
| Accession Number | 2005/5 |
| Edition | 1/3 |
| Media | 4 x DVD 6 min looped. Four channel projection |
| Measurements | 6 minutes |
About
BOOM BOOM: Super Heroine Super Beauty continues Hye Rim Lee’s exploration of animation as a tool for parodying the consumerist idealisation of the ‘perfect woman’. Lee has created the character Toki, a digital personification through which the artist explores issues of culture and sexuality. ‘Toki’, which means ‘bunny’ in Korean, is the name of a hybrid bunny-girl; she is cute and sexy, with doe-eyes and a slender and curvaceous figure. For Lee, a South Korean artist who lived in New Zealand for nearly a decade, Toki is a hybrid that embodies the experience of migration, highlighting the stereotypes surrounding Asian women in western countries. Toki is a recurring character in Hye Rim Lee’s work. Lee first began working with her while she was a student at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2002. Since then Toki has evolved from a person dressed in a rabbit costume to an inflatable plastic doll and finally to a 3D computer-animated cyborg.
