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Anna Park
Biography

When starting out the works for this show, I began to reimagine commonly depicted tropes of female figures in our everyday sources of media and advertisements. Throughout my research from archives of vintage ads to current media sources, what was most noticeable was the similarity in the depiction of women. Perfect complexion, hair that is rarely unkept, and often a beaming smile on their face. To suggest a sip of Coca Cola can trigger a level of elation akin to an orgasm seems comical, yet deemed successful marketing. We see it in ads, billboards, filmbeautiful people associated with said product. Sex, beauty, and desire have been the major pillars that fuel the consumer’s demand. If you buy this product, you too, can be like this glamorous woman running in a field. If you wear these clothes, you too, can be this carefree. While in most of these ads the women act as an accessory for the intended product, I wanted to reimagine them in a space where they have their own agency. They are taking up space in their own right, in a world void of their expected duty to keep smiling through it all. In the work Temptress, a cropped image of a Seventeen magazine cover is featured in the top right corner window. It is to represent how early the marketing towards young girls start and the influence it has in shaping our beauty standards. The girl’s eye peeks out above the ledge in a weary manner, purveying the chaos that surrounds her. The aspirations as a young girl were to be like the beautiful women that filled the magazine pages. Anticipation to be rid of our adolescence and to emulate this fantasy is only magnified through being exposed to a barrage of media from a young age. With the advent of social media, younger generations are more likely to be influenced by the targeted messaging of the hyper sexualization that is expected of young women in being more desirable.

Exhibitions

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  • Anna Park Good Girl May 07 – Jun 28, 2025 | Daegu

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  • [갤러리에서] 리안갤러리 대구, 애나 박 한국 최초 개인전 ‘Good Girl’ 개최 May 12, 2025

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