Sparkling Hallucination
Sparkling hallucination is a series of photos based on the cultural colonization of East Asia by Korean Wave culture. My motivation for taking the photos comes from my experience of being a groupie since I was a child. In this process , I watched a lot of Korean variety shows and idol MVs, and bought idol albums and merch. It had a huge impact on me during my adolescence when I could only wear ugly school uniforms every day. In the repressive education environment in East Asia,  idol worship seems like a gentle and reasonable outlet for venting. The idols’ glamorous appearance, exquisite video images, and exciting emotions in the songs gave me a huge fantasy about living a repetitive life day after day. Hallyu Everything is like a huge playground, where we can "rest" just by relying on electronic screens. Imitating the outfits of Korean idols, imitating how they speak, and listening to songs and dancing with my friends can help me get closer to them. At the same time, their dressing style and appearance are more in line with my aesthetic habits.
In this project, I created a fictional image of a kpop fan in my dreams based on my own starstruck experience. She will imitate the makeup of popular idols of different eras in her life, and use her outfits to reflect her current emotional state and attitude towards life. Or she may imagine herself as an idol who has already debuted in her own room, she will Imitate their singing, dancing, selfies, and interviews. A series of room decorations such as small lamps on the wall, pink walls, a large number of posters, dolls on the shelves, etc. are all images often constructed in kpop mv.





As a millennial, we have seen this in European and American movies since childhood. The image of a girl's room, most of the youth in movies and TV shows are free, rebellious, and full of vitality, encouraging people to find their true self in confusion. Hallyu culture cleverly uses this to find commonalities in different cultural backgrounds, and builds a comfort zone of visual culture, allowing the audience to be better attracted and accept Korean culture, and subtly changes "I". And this change can also be seen as a desire that cannot be satisfied in youth. Her behavior and dress in the photos are all projections of fantasy desires. The reality is still repressed and repetitive, but in this world that belongs to her In this space, she can escape reality and make everything in her mind come true.