WAY TO THE SEUNG-GA TEMPLE

Way to the Seung-ga Temple is a sequel to Citizen’s Forest and Small Art History 1-2 and documents the road to the Seung-ga temple in Mt. Bukhan using an idiom of the amateur landscape photographs taken with slide film. If Citizen’s Forest is a dark and brooding atmospheric black and white video, Way to the Seung-ga Temple is colorful and picturesque. Suggesting an ideal scenery picture that is artificially staged, Park appeals to the unique sentimentalism shared by himself and many Koreans, which oscillates between “kitsch” and “Hwaeom (majestic splendor).” (Kukje Gallery)

 

2017 안녕 安寧 Farewell, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea