Park Kyung Jin’s painting is an exploration of social, psychological aspects caused by disasters, especially man-made disasters. Horror, anxiety, and confusion deriving from man-made disasters is globally important in that natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunami as well as social disasters like wars, terror, incidents and accidents might turn into man-made disasters due to negligence and indifference in preparation and rescue. Park’s paintings investigating man-made disasters rather than natural catastrophes can be said to be inspired by the immediate memories embedded by disastrous events such as the September 11 Attacks in New York or the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster caused by earthquake and tsunami. In this respect, disasters portrayed in Park’s paintings are a “return of never forgettable collective memories” of abusive, repressive events destroying communal life in a second, and a “representation of the nightmarish reality” nestling in a group’s deep psychology, constantly torturing them.
By Kim Sung-ho, Art Critic

Artist Talk | 2015.05.20(Wed), 13:30 (Multimedia Room)

Open Studio | 2015.06.04 (Artist’s Studio)

Exhibition Date | 2015.06.13-06.28 (1 1/2 F Gallery)