Exhibition Information

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Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

			Park Sinyoung, a sculptor whose practice spans both Korea and abroad, presents her exhibition The Abstraction of Light at Gallery 508 from September 2 to November 21. This exhibition features a series of flat installation works that she has developed over more than a decade, now unveiled for the first time. These works, long held in silence, carry a profound depth and a quiet yet powerful resonance.



A graduate of Ewha Womans University’s Department of Sculpture, Park has participated in numerous significant exhibitions, including the 2nd Gwangju Biennale’s “Spirit of Youth,” Young Korean Artists 1996 (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea), Korean Contemporary Art German Tour (MMCA), Daegu Asian Art Festival, Lart Active (Foundation Lesur, France), June Peinture and Newcomers & Masters (Grand Palais, Paris), Korean Contemporary Art (Kunstmuseum Mülheim, Germany), Korean Contemporary Art (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), and received the Grand Prize at the Biennal de Sulture Art Contemporaine.



The light that emerges in Park’s work is surreal and dreamlike—uncertain yet undeniably present. These forms of light, ambiguous but volumetric, breathe like dense masses of color. Their subtle pulses resonate through the movement of the eye, shaking the viewer’s visual perception. Rich tones and hazy hues float within a hallucinatory atmosphere, while golden-edged colors seem suspended in weightless air.

The Abstraction of Light began with her light-integrated sculptures in 1993 and has since evolved through LED works and into her current flat installations. The lights in these works are born from a journey in search of the soul’s light, originating from a place of deep introspection. Park’s abstract light resembles an atmosphere caught in a dream—a reflection of the artist’s existential inquiry into the reason for being through art.



Beginning and ending in the unknown, these captivating spectrums of light hold our gaze with a sense of luminous fullness. They exist without form or boundary, yet possess a profound presence that defies definition.