Saturday Night by In Sook Kim | Photo Book

Newspaper reports of people lying dead in their homes for months or even years, unnoticed by their neighbors, are a constant source of shock. These events are symptomatic of the increasing loneliness in our society, and not just among the elderly. In Sook Kim's (*1969 in Pusan, South Korea) work, she examines how people face this threat of loneliness. Her elaborate, psychologically convincing stagings show how we use TV, computers, sex, alcohol, psychotropic drugs or drugs in a vain attempt to fill the agonizing emptiness and drown out the terrible silence and the painful awareness of our own isolation. The magnificent work Saturday Night summarizes all these escapes in one picture; the illuminated windows of a high-rise facade provide a clear view of the abysses of human existence.

Print Length: 296 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag

Published in 2009

ISBN: 978-3-7757-2447-0