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			Sparks focuses on the similar work methods and sensory expansion shared by two artists, emerging from their relationship with media and painting. For these artists,, media and data are essential in the image creation process, necessitating editing, directing, replicating, and substituting within the existing topology to expand visual perception. Echoing cultural critic Marshall McLuhan’s observation that all media are the extension of human mental and perceptual faculties, this exhibition highlights how both artists navigate and expand perception through new relational configurations between genres, painting, and media.

Hyun-jung Park (b.1986) gathers visually captivating images and processes this data as artistic material, employing a generative and methodical approach. She isolates digitalized forms from their contexts, extracting, duplicating, regressing, and fragmenting them, using the iPad’s timelapse feature to layer images and trace their development. This approach goes beyond generating new or irregular patterns; it represents a backward movement to find order in a visually complex world and to visualize the unseen.

Miryu Yoon (b.1991) integrates photography into painting, capturing images that involve distinct ‘direction’ in spontaneously encountered conditions. Rather than striving for paintings that perfectly mimic photographic images, she opts for a more abstracted and fragmented approach, thereby liberating the essence of her painterly style. This method focuses our attention on elusive, fragmented images with unique essences, often unnoticed in daily life.

Like sparks igniting, Sparks is designed to challenge the viewer’s established perspectives, stimulating a broadening of concepts and perceptions through the interaction of Yoon’s and Park’s seemingly contrasting works. The exhibition aspires for audiences to experience a novel synthesis that goes beyond the traditional metaphors and symbols of painting, transcending media and genre.

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