Jina Park’s works are strange scenes; the place and once they happen is unknown. In the collection Collector’s Room (2018), The Guardians of Cabinets (2020), The Moon Palace (2021), and Voyage into the Sun (2022), she employs egg paint (“tempera,” a way used because the Ier century) and steadily develops a landscape the place geometric figures, sculptures, animals, and crops come collectively virtually randomly, as in a dream.
Entities drawn from Greek and Egyptian mythology coexist with objects that would simply have been found in cupboards of curiosities or in the so-called “historic artwork” galleries of Western museums. Certainly, the artist finds her subjects in historical past books, museums, botanical gardens and zoos, which are all institutions whose historical past is intrinsically linked to colonization. The very format of the works, inspired by the chaekgado (Korean cabinets of curiosities within the form of painted libraries), permits her to evoke the wishes of possession and power, inherent within the formation of collections, whether particular person or collective, personal or public.
The dwelling beings and objects that populate the Korean painter’s works come from a wide variety of eras and nations, allowing the artist to query our relationship to overseas cultures. For probably the most half collected in violence and torn from their unique context, they've turn out to be symbols of the satisfaction of particular person wishes and a collective want for categorization. By gathering them in timeless scenes and in areas which might be troublesome to determine, Jina Park confronts us with these contradictions and creates a brand new collection, her own, in two dimensions, colorful and kitschy, the place the hierarchy between classical art, artifacts, and dwelling varieties is not related.
Flora Fettah&
https://www.shebam.art/images/jinapark_voyageintothesun.pdf
Upcoming exhibitions:
3.Sep. Kiaf plus(artfair) – Thisweekendroom Seoul.
15.Sep Modern Istanbul(artfair) with Primecut
L’article <strong>THE PALACES OF CURIOSITIES OF JINA PARK</strong> est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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