PROFILES, 2010
Profiles captures monumental figures dramatically engaged in everyday actions. The figures in the photographs are altered sports trophies that have had their basketball, tennis racket and hockey stick replaced with a stroller, hammer, clipboard, or other work‐related prop. Enlarged and shown without their pedestals, the individual statues feel uncannily human in their expressions and imperfections. Together these life‐size representations of a janitor, handyman, assistant, cashier, mechanic, cook and babysitter celebrate the unsung heroes whose everyday labors ordinarily go unrecognized.
Archival resin coated pigment prints, face mounted on acrylic
Series of 7 photographs
42” w x 80” h
Jean Shin: Profiles