The Femme Fatale (2004)
THe Aging Rocker (2004)
The J-Pop Girl (2004)
The House Wife (2004)
The Killer Clown (2004)
The Alien Abduction (2004)
The Homicide (2004)
Fantri-cide
"Fantri-cide" is a photographic exploration that dissects our relationship with media archetypes through a vibrant and sardonic lens. The title itself—a neologism combining "Fantasy" with the suffix "-cide"—simultaneously suggests both the destruction of these fantasy constructs and acknowledges their harmful persistence in our collective consciousness.
In this series, I stage familiar cinematic characters in deliberately incongruous settings, creating visual dissonance that reveals their artificiality. Each carefully composed photograph functions as a caricature of a media-manufactured persona, exaggerating their defining features while placing them in contexts that strip away their mythological power.
The series presents a rogues' gallery of recognizable tropes: The calculating Femme Fatale, stripped of her mystique; The Aging Rocker, whose rebellion has calcified into cliché; The hyperkinetic J-Pop Girl, whose manufactured cuteness becomes uncanny; The idealized Housewife, whose domestic perfection appears increasingly surreal; The Killer Clown, whose terror dissolves into absurdity; The Alien Abduction, reframing cosmic horror as mundane delusion; and The Homicide, where violence is reduced to empty spectacle.
The modern human exists in constant dialogue with media narratives. When these fantastic personas are unconsciously absorbed, they become insidious yardsticks against which we measure our own reality and worth. Through vibrant color and theatrical staging, "Fantri-cide" aims to dismantle these constructed identities—not through aggression, but through the revelation of their absurdity.
By presenting these characters as obviously fabricated, I invite viewers to recognize the fantasy constructs that have colonized our imaginations. The humor in these images serves as an entry point to a deeper contemplation of how fictional archetypes shape our self-perception and social interactions.
"Fantri-cide" does not merely critique media tropes but offers a playful reclamation of our relationship with them—acknowledging their influence while asserting our power to deconstruct and transcend them.
