22.06.20 박효정 | place nakyang

GALLERY SIL

Park hyo jung

My name is Park Hyo Jung, and I create work with weaving.

Weaving is not simply a material or technique, but it is an unwavering medium of my minimalistic painting journey. I identify myself closely as a craftsperson, and this is how I engage with my paintings.

The works are created by using a loom that is connected to

a computer’s Dobby system, enabling a double weave that allows

a distinct expression of lines. I aim to bring weaving into the field of painting, which otherwise is viewed as craft. I do so without the use of brushes, but instead create a neat composition through weaving to display in a single image. In other words, this is a craft-based painting. And I would like to call this realm the “woven painting.”

From afar the painting seems to be composed of paint and brush strokes, but come a step closer and you will realize that the work is made of interwoven warp and weft. I stress that sewing of various weaving units is not involved in this work – it is a purely unprocessed weaving work carried in a single image.

Looms are optimized to articulate vertical and horizontal lines.

I employ a formative language to show a powerful but streamlined theme using dots, lines and the vertical and horizontal features of

a surface. The language, when added with colors and structure,

conveys a sense of voluminous form in a stable and balanced manner.

GALLERY SIL

The woven painting - "move" series

“MOVE ”

Gaining full independence at a young age of 20 left the artist pondering about the movement and changes a person or a space experience with the passing of time. This naturally became the core theme of the works.

Time is applied unconditionally to everything that exists, and the “passing” of time brings movement to people and space. Time flows without anyone noticing it. It seems as though a person moves and changes actively while it happens, but at the same time everything surrounding that person seems to change.

Despite this inevitable moving of time we desire to have a forever home to which we can always return. We know for sure that nothing lasts forever and yet wish for the opposite. How we define “home,”

the things that move and the things that always stay the same.

People who come and go, the places I pass by and the places that anchor me.

These floating ideas are displayed through the medium of “yarn”, which symbolizes the movement of people and space with time that never ceases to flow. Time is also an accumulation of the interwoven past. The shapes and arrangement of dots, lines, and surfaces woven by yarn take the viewers to the artist’s abstract world of collision among movement and the forces of movement and immobility.