Writings
Criticisms
Between the Fascination of Metamorphosis and the Drift of Imagery
A single phrase, like a single photogram, must be capable of delivering a rich range of visual stimuli within an unceasing flow of motion. (…) Every verb on every page appears in the present tense, as if all events were unfolding right before our eyes. New incidents rush in, and all distance between one and the next collapses into immediacy.
2025.05.20
Criticisms
Flowing Memory: An Alternative Language on Disciplined Creativity
The fluttering silver foil you are looking at is a “troublesome meta-material” completely detached from the traditional solidity of canvas or hanji. In this exhibition, Park situates these chaotic, sensorial works within the mutable conditions of an alternative space in Mullae-dong. Interpreting concealed structures of power through an uncanny sensibility, the works unsettle our habituated, disciplined mode
2019.09.20
Statements
7 Vertices
7 vertices is a work that was exhibited in the group show 《Faces We Want to See》 at the Lee Han-yeol Memorial Hall (October 7–November 30, 2015). The exhibition selected six individuals who had been sacrificed during the process of democratization or in popular struggles for livelihood, paired each with one of six artists, and presented their lives through each artist’s distinct mode of expression.
2015.10.07
Criticisms
A Protest against Silent Inaction
Martin Niemöller, a theologian and Lutheran pastor during World War II, was initially a conservative and rather passive observer of the Nazis. What finally broke his silence and caused him to protest against Hitler was the Nazi persecution of the Christian Church. Niemöller later confessed his deep regrets about not speaking up and thus allowing countless victims to perish in the hands of the Nazis.
2011.08.20
Criticisms
Resupination
A camera lens captures and transmits the image of an object, projecting it onto film. This primary function is something we’re all generally familiar with. Yet in the process, the lens also performs a sly trick: it flips the object upside down. This inversion, known as “Resupination”, originally comes from botany, where it describes an organ positioned opposite to its natural orientation.
2004