Gimhongsok,
Solitude of Silences, 2019, Installation view of 《OUR SET 2025: Gimhongsok x Kiljong Park》 ©Suwon Art Space GwanggyoSuwon
Art Space Gwanggyo presents a collaborative project 《OUR SET 2025: Gimhongsok x Kiljong Park》, on
view through October 12.
Since
2022, “Our Set” has been an exhibition project that brings together creators
from different genres to present unique collaborations. This year’s iteration
pivots from emphasizing collaborative processes themselves toward an
examination of medium-specific experimentation undertaken by two distinguished
artists, Gimhongsok and Kiljong Park, both of whom have consistently expanded
their aesthetic practices across diverse media and generic boundaries with
exceptional conceptual fluidity.
Kiljong Park, An Exhibition Walker, 2023 ©Suwon Art Space Gwanggyo
Gimhongsok (b. 1964) subverts artistic
conventions and established forms through a diverse range of media, including
painting, drawing, video, performance, and sculpture, creating ruptures within
social consensus, institutions, and conceptual frameworks. His deployment of
intangible materials—text, narrative, voice, and breath—renders visible the
mechanisms of perception, the clandestine operations of power, and
institutional hierarchies.
Kiljong Park (b. 1982) operates Kiljong
Arcade, a conceptual space wherein he interrogates the demarcation between
spectatorship and utility to propose novel formalistic potentialities for
objects. With perceptual acuity, he apprehends the distinctive taxonomic order
inherent in quotidian circumstances—a distorted bookshelf, an elderly woman’s
repurposed conveyance for recyclable paper collection, domestic artifacts, or
transitory visual fragments of encountered scenes.
Installation view of 《OUR SET 2025: Gimhongsok x Kiljong Park》
©Suwon Art Space GwanggyoThis exhibition establishes a discursive platform for incisive intellectual wit within the medium-based experimentation of these two practitioners. The curatorial framework unfolds across four conceptual domains: “Running Time,”, “Open Stage,” “Intermission”, “Backstage.” This approach to accommodating visitors arriving at disparate temporal junctures will facilitate a mediatory aesthetic experience.
