Installation view of 《New Body》 ©Wunggyu PARKARARIO MUSEUM presents 《New Body》, a solo exhibition by Wunggyu Park at
Tapdong Cinema’s Project Underground, through September 9, 2026.
Park has long explored
“negativity”—emotions such as disgust, fear, and abjection—through works that
appropriate the formal structures of religious painting. This exhibition
features his pseudo-mythological series, which reinterpret Buddhist iconography
and narrative structures, alongside the earlier works that inspired them.
Installation view of 《New Body》 ©Wunggyu PARKThe artist continues to appropriate the
formal language of Buddhist painting to disrupt the boundaries between jeong
(the positive) and bu-jeong (the negative), rearticulating negativity through
new narrative and formal language. This exhibition weaves the three
series—tracing the birth, death, decay, and rebirth of a symbolic figure of
negativity—into a cohesive narrative flow.
In doing so, it offers a concentrated view
of the artist’s evolving formal language, which transcends traditional
religious painting to establish an autonomous aesthetic system. Furthermore,
the fictional narrative structure presented here signals the deepening of an
internal logic that will go on to support his later body of work.
