rewind
Crack open a can of Enae’s emotional fixer elixer.
Once a design and illustration specialist, Korean photographer Enae stumbled upon an old camera back in 2016, swiftly took to social media, and never looked back. As an art photographer, her focal point is the contradictory nature of emotions and the imperfection of mainstream social narratives in a hyper-aesthetic and materialistic world. Although Enae once fixated on intrinsic themes such as depression and helplessness, she now looks externally at the social isolation and relational decay present in her immediate community.
In her Instant Love photographic universe, Enae zones into the fantastical movements of exhausted souls as they break down and re-package human emotions into tactile, edible ingredients and shopping sprees. Instead of embracing the complexity and depending on others for love, they feed on quick emotional fixes and binge until their hearts are far from content. At breaking point, the sweet taste of affection becomes nothing more than an idle craving; a drastic over-fascination with convenience that absolutely comes at a cost.
To open one of Enae’s cans is to feel engulfed by a nihilistic deluge and an even deeper, creeping shadow of hopelessness. Striking to the senses, her forbidden temptations inspire us to gazine into the face of sin, to say no to the forces of impulse, and to reach out in search of true intimacy before it is too late.
