The title of the exhibition, A Thing is a Hole in a Thing It is Not, is a quote from American minimalist artist, Carl Andre, referring to his idea of the object as a ‘cut in space’, which examines the traditional notion of positive and negative space. Jinyong Park, the artist of this exhibition, uses the quotation to hint at the basis of her work in two ways. She focuses on phenomena where sensory data becomes perceptible in between differences, which is a fundamental structure of the occurrence of a thing. Then, she tries to chase after such ongoing experiences by the way the drawing elements – point, line and face – meet each other.
Park’s work explores phenomenological experience. She concentrates on the present phenomenon that happens to be now and here in the working process. She unfolds herself into random sensory data in the studio, such as ever-changing light, and amplifies the subtle condensed moment of observation and imagination.
For this show, Park shows a body of new drawing pieces, which is a sort of palimpsest by means of many-fold temporal traces of each moment that accumulate and are repeated, thereby becoming blurred. She uses repetitive gestures in kaleidoscopic colours that untangle the complicated texture of the world both directly and naturally. The surface of her work is woven by the archival time of gestures, where her bodily attitude in the phenomenal field emerges. As such, she tries to approach the reality of perception by experimenting on its temporality in the act of painting.
Jinyong Park is a South Korean artist based in London. She finished her MA in painting at the Royal College of Art last year, and her work involves fleeting wall drawing and a range of work on paper. More information about the artist can be found at the artist’s website: www.jinyongpark.com