21AGP

solitude _ DaDim is a bat _ 15*15*35cm _ 2009



chair _ hammer _ 35*35*60cm _ 2009

Ju Hyun Park derives unique humors from the antagonistic relationship between tools and human beings rather than criticizes human’s contradictory desires and limitations. With humors, jokes and ironies, his “Story of Tools” asks what creative human is to us who has fallen into just tools alienated from their own instrumental civilization. Also it gives a question about what is social meaning and role of artist’s activities as tools. He seems to resolve the question at a point where he listens to his story again by holding tools to play his role, and another embodiment of the story connects the basis of the story with the embodiment of the story. In this <Story of Tools> exhibition, it is conspicuous as a deliberation of the artist that the metaphorical symbol about the role of the spaces where instrumental society and Homo Faber gets through their uncomfortable relationship in terms of the chair shaped artwork and the bird shaped artwork made of tools.

SONGE (Art Studies, Art Criticism), translated by Yeonjung Kim



Story of Tools by Ju HyunPark

July 31st ~ August 9th 2009

The conversation with the Artist

4 pm August 2th

KEPCO PLAZA GALLERY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6laqM...layer_embedded



The conversation video script

KEPCO PLAZA GALLERY_Kepco Arts Center, 1355 Seocho dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul Korea




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