im/pure - 4
im/pure, Video Still 1, 21.1 x 37.5", Archival Inkjet Print, 2011.
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Logline:
Water
fragments and washes away the pristine reflection of a woman. What is
revealed is her true inner self,
mourning the loss of innocence.
Synopsis:
Im/pure
shows the ambiguity of the transformative space of self-creation,
where nothing is certain. A woman stands
in the water, looking at her
reflection. At times the reflection shows what everyone else sees — a
woman in a white dress,
symbolizing the ideal of the perfect, pure woman.
However,
at times this looking pool reflects her inner-self, one that is
marked by grief, shame and guilt, represented by
the black dress. In
between, there are fragments of both selves represented as one
identity morphs into another in a
continuous cycle.
The ephemeral quality of the image reflected in the water—the fact that
the image could be destroyed by something as
small as a thrown
pebble—illustrates the fluid and fragile nature of one’s
identity, and that our sense of self is not as clear
and concrete as we might like it to be.