In a Hand of a Hand


ALEXIS KYUNG JOO JANG


Photographs, 2021



                               



The project ‘In a Hand of a Hand’ is an attempt to capture the intimate relationships between people and their smartphones. Initially, starting with my own hand, participants were asked to bring a photo up on their screen, one which has captured the phone and a hand of another, continuously building up and leaving traces within the phone memory of each new participant. An original photo of my own hand and a smartphone continued to move and transfer through the people I met. The traces of my memory got stronger as they accumulated in the phones of more and more participants, later creating an image in which the original is barely recognisable.




  

Goldsmiths MA Contemporary Art Theory 2021