Exhibition Information

(이미지출처=whistle)

(이미지출처=whistle)

(이미지출처=whistle)

(이미지출처=whistle)

			Weather patterns encountered through the five senses create a variety of impressions. Spotting the changing colors of clothes with the seasons is like observing those of the weather. On the other hand, the color of the sky remaining as an image is dark blue, unclear whether it is before dawn or around sunset. When an application's color filter executes a casual photograph, the picture becomes manipulated, and the user acquires an image moody and full of diverse color energy. Color filters that transform the tone of a photo define light by names unrelated to the photographer's situation, such as "Natural," "Mood," "Retro," and "1:00 p.m." Immediately, ordinary life is recorded in light that reflects the developer's sensibility. How will a person's memory of virtual saturation be construed in the future?

Junghae Park's solo exhibition Mellow Melody is full of yellow energy. The artist enshrouds with a warm curtain the recollection of scenes already segmented from reality. The artist has been interested in the virtual versus reality and the boundary between the inside and outside of the cogitation, pondering on through the physical form of painting. The yellow color used by the artist works a medium between virtual and real space. The nonexistent landscape is processed through Park's prism into her own spectrum. She used yellow as a window to frame contradictions between memories and feelings. Although warm and soft, and from everyday life, the artist interprets this color as "bygone things" or "just before dissipating." Ubiquitous pleasure and private sentiment overlap in this color from the weather.

The artist has been working on the theme "Light" since 2017. Following the exhibition Xagenexx (2017, Archive Bomm), which visualizes the shape of the light observed in a particular space into the symbol X, this solo exhibition Mellow Melody recognizes the change of light explicitly according to the weather and connects to its suggested melody and shape. Gazing at the light, to the artist, is a process that evokes the object and its background. As the artist touches the faded paper, one envisions the light filtering in a strange shape through the sticky tape left on the window.

Objects made of paper often appear in Junghae Park's work. A piece of paper placed in front of a surreal colored scape is a staged situation that shows light and story, a reminder that the work and the viewer are located together in reality. Also, for the artist, it is a tool that induces three-dimensional imagination. It is an ideological material that sensually measures the distance of the object and strengthens the structure of the painting. Park also pays attention to the printed paper's color, which speaks to her interest in "virtual reality." Just as the distinction between natural and artificial has become ambiguous one day.

Micro Ground greets visitors at the exhibition's entrance, communicating light, memory, and the physicality of light. There is an apparent will to describe the distance of an invisible landscape through 'looking' and 'perceiving' in various ways. Heavy Cloud imagines the size of particles. The size and weight of a subject tend to fluctuate according to the point of view. A heavy cloud that sinks and the heart symbol's lightness that jumps over it collide and reveal an emotional gap. Also, TEETHh considers changing form and crevice as exposed to light, Flashback recalls the day during one night, and Distorting Time twists the laps of time. The artist weaves iconography with titles, leaving clues for our interpretation.

Soohyun Kim, Curator