◊ Artist Statement
I deal with the question of what it means to be me under the conditions of a patriarchal system as well as a diasporic person in Western societies. In my photographs, I explore themes of womanhood, belonging, emancipation, and lust, and work against the background of my own biography. As a photographer, I capture the conflicts of everyday life. "Look at me and recognize me - and life," is what these images are meant to say, showing other people as well as everyday objects that also reflect my own experiences. Taking different distances in photography thereby offers the possibility of both conveying the story of others and finding the right distance to my own story as an artist myself - and to evoke individual memories.
◊ Short Bio
Miji Ih (* 1990 in Seoul/KR) is a Korean photographer and visual artist living in Berlin. Ih graduated in 2021 as a Meisterschülerin of Prof. Josephine Pryde at the Berlin University of the Arts. Previously, she studied Photography, New Document at Kaywon School of Art & Design in South Korea (until 2013). In 2023, she receives the Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin. Her work has been featured in the exhibition The Spectrum for Coexistence, Its Boundaries and Outside at SeMA Storage (2017) during the Seoul Photo Festival and in the exhibition series Seen By (#8, #13, #15) at the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin (2017, 2019, 2021), among others.
