About The Work

Park Jung Hyuk’s first painting series, 'Park’s Park', begins by drawing fragments of contemporary visual culture into the realm of painting. Scenes taken from film, television, advertisements, and other mass-media sources lose their original functions and contexts once they are recomposed on the canvas, acquiring new layers of meaning. By overturning the intended purpose of these images, the artist reveals how easily familiar visual signs can shed their meanings and generate new ones.
 
Images shaped by capitalist objectives collide or coexist, forming unexpected relationships through the artist’s intervention. This rearrangement encourages viewers to question the visual language they assume they already understand. In this sense, ‘Park’s Park’ becomes a device that prompts a reconsideration of what it means to look.
 
Facing familiar images, viewers attempt to locate clues for interpretation, only to realize that such clues often limit the very way they perceive the world. Park’s paintings operate within this tension, quietly yet firmly asking how images structure social relations and shape our sensory experience.

Provenance

Artist Collection, 2025