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04/30/2008
Kim Joon's 'Tattoo Art'

Korean artist, Kim Joon has taken inspiration from tattoo art, along with the stigma attached to it in his country, to make a statement about consumerism, identity and social taboo in his latest work entitled Tattoos, Works of Art.

Kim Joon doesn't wield a buzzing tattoo machine or paint brush. He uses a mouse. Taking images of nudes, he gathers the bodies together and layers on the imagery -- symbols of power, sports, high-end consumer brands. The process is called One Source, Multi Use according to an English translation from the Korean, and uses a projector and monitor in creating the digital prints.

Kim Joon not only uses these images to challenge the viewer to look at their lives of consumption but also to challenge social bias -- that against tattooed people -- in making the images light and beautiful, a compliment rather than curse to the body.

Thanks, Aleksi!