So Fragile
2023–2024
Set of playing cards
“So Fragile” explores the rise of toxic masculinity and the attempt to suppress and devalue women with hateful words and violence, often claiming “traditional” patriarchal values as its basis.
Arguing that a society based on such values is built on an inherently fragile structure – like a “house of cards” about to collapse any time, a set of cards with the theme “so fragile” was created.
Category “Limit”
The oppression, violence and limitations set on women, textually visualized
Category “Label”
The different labels that are applied to women to degrade them
Category “Doctrine”
The sexist remarks that were made about women by prominent figures
Category “System”
The different systems “fragile masculinity” manifests in
Photography support: Yeoneui Kim, Seongjin Joeng and Yeongju Jeon