The Hip Hop Project (19)

ArtistNikki S. Lee
Year2001
Mediumtype-C print
Dimentions54×71.8×-
CountrySouth Korea
Year of acquisition2002
Collection no.1591
ExplanationNikki S. Lee was born in Korea and currently based in the US. She appears in all of these "snapshot" like photographs which actually document a series of project she initiated with the aim to assimilate into various different communities of class, life-style, and ethnicity in American society. Through this project, she attempts to demonstrate that identities can in fact be chosen and altered by every individual. Her work requires a strenuous process in which the members of the particular group has reached a consensus that she has now become now one of "them."

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