{"id":56419,"date":"2025-09-09T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/?post_type=insights&#038;p=56419"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:31:22","slug":"beyond-matter","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/insights\/56419","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Park Suk Won<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56420\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/09\/09171150\/Park-Suk-Won-Accumulation-241104-2024-Korean-paper-on-canvas-110-x-110-cm-70%ED%98%B8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5285\" height=\"5134\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Park Suk Won, Accumulation &#8211; 241104, Korean paper on canvas, 110 x 110 cm, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Park Suk Won constructs his world through acts of repetition, accumulation, stacking, and layering. These aren\u2019t mere acts of structural assemblage or formal arrangement. The primal gestures evident in his three-dimensional works, produced by cutting and rejoining stone and steel plates under a rubric of jeok (accumulation) or jeok-ui (accumulative intent), as well as his two-dimensional works involving tearing and reapplying Hanji onto canvas, connote temporality and spatiality, while simultaneously revealing the raw materiality of the media. Park\u2019s works are born at the juncture between the act of stacking and the material\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56421\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/09\/09171216\/Park-Suk-Won-Accumulation-250425-2025-Korean-paper-on-canvas-91-x-117-cm-50%ED%98%B8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6473\" height=\"5170\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Park Suk Won, Accumulation &#8211; 250425, Korean paper on canvas, 91 x 117 cm, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Structurally, Park\u2019s stacked works resemble towers or monuments. Yet for the artist, stacking is not a drive toward completion but an ongoing state of generation, closer to the progressive rhythm of existence. This act of laying one layer upon another isn\u2019t a repetition of redundant nature but rather what Gilles Deleuze calls the \u201crepetition of difference,\u201d a generative motion that begets subtle variations and new equilibria with each instance. The methodology of tearing and rearranging layers of Hanji onto canvas seen in Park\u2019s recent works corresponds to his sculptural practice of vertical stacking, transposed into a horizontal register. The resulting Hanji planes evoke sectional diagrams of his three-dimensional works, with delicate and pliant fibers supplanting the coarse materiality of stone or steel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56422\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/09\/09171235\/Installation-view.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5344\" height=\"6146\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Installation View (1)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This exhibition illuminates the ways in which Park\u2019s gestures of stacking and layering, the properties of his materials, and the Korean sensibility mediated by Hanji recalibrate and propel one another as they shape Park\u2019s artistic world. His works inquire into how existence emerges and takes form from sensation before representation, from material before meaning, and from structure before figure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56423\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/09\/09171302\/Installation-view-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"8410\" height=\"5610\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Installation View (2)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0At the artist\u2019s hands, cement, steel, plaster, and Hanji transcend mere material to become stratal units inscribed with the memory, time, physicality, and spirit that make up the world. By stacking and layering matter, he reawakens the sediments of unspoken sensation and memory within us. These strata are at once solid and tender, and refined yet vital. Undivorced from life itself, Park\u2019s art reveals the latent power of matter, opening fissures toward the invisible world to invite us into a realm of forgotten senses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Kim Yisoon (Art historian and former professor at Hongik University)<\/p>\n<p>Song Art Gallery<br \/>\nAcrovista Arcade, 188, Seochojungang-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06600, Republic of Korea<br \/>\n82 2 3482 7096<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.songartgallery.co.kr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WEB<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/songart_gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[50,51],"class_list":["post-56419","insights","type-insights","status-publish","hentry","category-insight","category-stories"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/56419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insights"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}