Ina Jang b.1982

INA JANG

Ina Jang (b. 1982) graduated with a BFA in Photography in 2010 and completed her studies in the MPS Fashion Photography Program in 2012 from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her works have been shown in internationally acclaimed galleries and festivals, including the New York Photo Festival, Daegu Photo Biennale, Paris Photo, Tokyo Photo, Unseen and Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam. Her works have been published in Time Magazine, British Journal of Photography, IMA Magazine, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. Ina currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

 Her unique aesthetic, characterized by minimal, dreamy atmospheres, is profoundly influenced by fashion and design and plays with the exploration of dimensionality. In her photographs, humorous and powerful in their simplicity, models are often partly obscured by items such as purses and shoes or pieces of paper building compositions in the intersection between drawing and photography. “I make images that are minimal and two-dimensional by layering people, places and things to precisely execute ideas, but with the intention of discarding information,” she says. “As I want the ideas to be tangible, the process becomes rigorously physical and related to my personal experience in terms of making photographs; it often contains cutting, gluing and pasting mundane objects from real life, such as paper and cotton balls. The photographs are often figurative and unidentified, casting a suspicion upon the photograph’s agenda.” In recent years, she produced a series of conceptual still-life works: colourful, abstract compositions, created by arranging hand-painted paper cut-outs then photographed in the ethereal winter sunlight that streamed through the windows of her New York studio. As a result, simultaneously flat and three-dimensional forms, at times abstract at times resembling plants or human figures, stand against muted backgrounds.

 Source: Artland Spotlight On: Korean Artists