Writings
Criticisms
Artistic World
Park Jung Hyuk explores multiple layers of visual art through various media, including painting, installation, and video. His work closely examines the structure, meaning, and affective power of images. His paintings recombine fragments of images extracted from mass media, strategically disrupting the viewer’s habitual sensory framework. Visual elements appro
2025
Criticisms
Between the Fascination of Metamorphosis and the Drift of Imagery
A single phrase, like a single photogram, must be capable of delivering a rich range of visual stimuli within an unceasing flow of motion. (…) Every verb on every page appears in the present tense, as if all events were unfolding right before our eyes. New incidents rush in, and all distance between one and the next collapses into immediacy.
2025.05.20
Criticisms
Rebellious Possibility_Transformation, Searching for Origins and the Process of Deconstruction
Park Jung Hyuk has long focused on how humans sense and perceive the world surrounding them — how they are governed by it — and how they reproduce it. As the artist himself states that his work is “a questioning of taken-for-granted logic, stereotypes, structural problems, and contradictions,”
April, 2025
Texts
Reading a Painting #1 – Park Jung Hyuk’s Territory Shaped through Mytheme
Milan Kundera, in 『Testaments Betrayed』, cites Rabelais’ book 『Gargantua and Pantagruel』 and writes that the novel is, fundamentally, a territory where moral judgment is suspended. He adds that this suspension itself constitutes the novel’s morality — a morality that stands in opposition to
2023.05.19
Statements
Same=Different
This work uses the phonetic and cosmological principles of Hangul’s invention, and its process of development into a global writing system through discrimination, contempt, hardship, and overcoming since its creation in the fifteenth century, together with Koi’s Law, which states that the size of an individual is determined by its environment, to show—through a found-footage technique—why Hangul has come to be positioned within global culture at this moment.
2020
Criticisms
Flowing Memory: An Alternative Language on Disciplined Creativity
The fluttering silver foil you are looking at is a “troublesome meta-material” completely detached from the traditional solidity of canvas or hanji. In this exhibition, Park situates these chaotic, sensorial works within the mutable conditions of an alternative space in Mullae-dong. Interpreting concealed structures of power through an uncanny sensibility, the works unsettle our habituated, disciplined mode
2019.09.20