Statements
2011
Park Jung Hyuk

This work, originally presented in Park
Jung Hyuk’s third solo exhibition 《Ordinary People》 (August 20–September 30, 2011), consists of five sound-interlinked
videos that play in random order. Each video is a dramatized montage created by
splicing together scenes from more than fifty Eastern and Western films and
television dramas.
Employing a form of found-footage
technique, the five videos collectively reveal a full spectrum of human
emotions. Within each one, there comes a moment when the atmosphere reaches a
heightened peak: in some sequences, characters erupt in furious screams; in
others, guns are fired, or dogs howl into the air. When a particular screen
reaches this point of climax, the other screens—whose audio is comparatively
weaker—symbolically “raise a white flag,” submitting to the dominant sound.
The hierarchy between images continuously
shifts according to the dynamics of each video’s audio. By drawing on the
narrative structure of most films and dramas—where everything ultimately exists
to build toward a dramatic climax—the work indirectly exposes how relationships
in real life also interfere with and influence one another.