[Work Introduction]
Presented in 2004 at the solo exhibition《Resupination (倒立, Resupination)》at Insa Art Space, this video installation addresses an existential confrontation between the artist and his grandmother lying on her sickbed. In the video, the grandmother’s scream (sound) regulates the air pressure of an air compressor, physically elevating the monitor.
 
[Artist’s Intention and Critical Perspectives]
The meeting of gazes: at the precise moment the monitor reaches its highest point—166cm—the grandmother’s eyes in the video align exactly with the actual eye level of Park Jung Hyuk.

The assertion of vitality: the grandmother’s scream is not merely an expression of pain, but an act that pierces the bodily limits managed by mechanical apparatus, declaring herself still a living subject.

The desire for de-codification: the critic Ryu Hanseung described this as a primordial and self-generative human desire to break free from the fated cycle of birth, aging, illness, and death (codification), as well as a ‘destined ritual’ that reaffirms sacred familial obligation.
 
Artist’s Note
“The height of 166cm created by a scream. At that point, I confronted my grandmother face-to-face. Refusing every predetermined frame, I receive—at my own eye level—the gaze that proves the primordial force of life.”

● 166cm is a direct reflection of family history, and the motive of this work is the grandmother who lay in bed a year ago and the birth of nephew. The grandmother says ‘Aw’, and Park Jung-huk calculates the intensity of the sound to float the monitor with an air compressor. When the sound is at its peak, the monitor rises to 166 cm, which exactly matches the artist's eye level.
 
This encounter is a fateful ritual that once again confirms the sacred family duty for grandmother as a son. Although the grandmother is managed and looked after by a machine, the small gesture suggests that she is still alive. Though a gigantic chain of a shift in generations through life and death, that is, the cycle of life, dominates us, the last wish of man to escape from the fateful code is our natural desire.