Nikki S. Lee
The Yuppie Project (4)

The Yuppie Project (4)

© Nikki S. Lee

The Yuppie Project (4)
The Yuppie Project (4)
ArtistKorean, born 1970
CultureKorean
Titles
  • The Yuppie Project (4)
Date1998
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 23 15/16 × 34 in. (60.8 × 86.4 cm)
Sheet: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Anne Wilkes Tucker in memory of Geraldine Wilkes Tucker Wallace
Object number2001.467
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

The Korean artist Nikki S. Lee spent months observing different
social groups for Projects (1997–2001), a series of self-portraits exploring
how the company we keep affects the way we present ourselves to the world. Lee
immersed herself in various communities—Hispanics, lesbians, schoolgirls,
skateboarders, and senior citizens—and learned their every gesture. Wearing
their typical clothes, she would then ask a passerby or friend to capture a
moment of interaction in deliberately amateurish snapshots. The red time stamp
tells us that this photograph from the Yuppie Project was taken just two days
before Christmas, a busy time for well-to-do shoppers like Lee and her new
friends.




Provenance[Leslie Tonkonow Artworks and Projects, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2001.

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