'I always suspected I was watching TV instead of living life' by Mina Young
December 2006 to April 2007
Inspired by a 1975 quote from Andy Warhol, Mina Young explores a lifestyle of surface glamour and the world of entertainment in her futuristic artwork.
The image could easily be mistaken for an ad, however no products are being hawked, and no narrative script fixes the subjects into a predetermined space.
The staged artifice serves no other purpose than to exist for itself. In this way Young’s work fits into a genre of contemporary photography that employs the language of the media still to create fabricated episodes that have all the pull of a screenplay in the absence of one.
