LKIF Gallery is pleased to announce, ‘Celestial Bodies’, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Eunjung Park(b.1987, New York). This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in Seoul.

Installation View 1

Park’s paintings project an echo of sensorial memory from different points on the timeline of her life. Puzzles, rather than explanations, her works depict landscapes that are built on the process of subjectifying/decoding life. The artist brings figures/elements from different times in her past to make them participate in the new timeline of the work itself. Her memories are fused with the present on the canvas, which leads her to a new place. To synthesize past experiences and current context to search for meaning: this is the preoccupation that constitutes Park’s work. Her practice doesn’t seek/intend simply to discover the past but to change it to a new state or new perspective in a contemplative way.

Installation View 2

As the title suggests, the body plays a central role in the context of her overall paintings. Bodies, physical and material, have a considerable meaning in her practice while responding to chronological timeline of her life.The Body is especially prerequisite as experiential subject in the new series of work called ‘weather’. For example, implies the notion of body by depicting the turbulence Park went through even though we cannot recognize it instantly. In this new body of work in which bodies are not being represented, the artist meticulously renders the sense of time and space experienced by the body traversing the figurative and the abstract: such as unexpected turbulences and being out of sync crossing different time zones.

Eunjung Park, Snake Wind, Oil on canvas, 172×137cm, 2024

Living between Seoul and New York, between different cultures, the artist experiences situations where almost nothing is obvious or concrete. Sometimes, we feel fascinated when we become the ones who hold the key to solving the mystery ourselves. The artist invites the audience to weirdly constructed landscapes full of signs to be interpret, calling for search and discovery. Otherwise it would stay fixed unknown. Her depiction is completely open to allowing all stories.

Eunjung Park, Three Voices Born by the Wind, Oil on canvas, 88×68cm, 2024

This exhibition is woven into narratives that begin with existential realizations from the time of her multiple flights crossing different time zones. The works are not an exhibition hall with memories, but are built on the process of interpreting the symbols the artist ran into. It’s about a re-formation of life in the end. Appealing to a universal experience of life that is enveloped in a strong sense of drifting through the world, the artist investigates our existence in a journey moving forward and looking back.

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