Jieun Park
Jieun Park is a young artist from South Korea. After attending Chungbuk National University in Cheongju, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Jorinde Vogt and received her diploma from Johanna Reich in 2021.
In addition to painting and drawing, Jieun Park also finds her expressiveness in performances, which she records and projects on walls as video works.
In her performance writing, hiding, disappearing and staying the artist uses black oil chalk to immortalize her past on a big white wall. In the initial phase, she inscribes important moments and memories from her personal life using calligraphy in her mother language, reading from left to right. Subsequently, she overlays the text with additional writing until it becomes unreadable and indecipherable for anyone other than herself – as if it were a form of purification.
At the end of the performance, the artist whitewashes the wall, effectively eliminating any trace of her writing. However, upon close examination, one may discern faint remnants of the memories etched upon the wall, akin to scars. As viewers, we are presented with the artist's bold and powerful script but are unable to understand the meaning behind it due to the language barrier. Even those fluent in Korean may struggle to decipher the meaning behind the layers and layers of text. Nevertheless, the act of writing, including movements such as stretching, crouching, and kneeling, is the essence of the performance.
The artist's exhaustion after the process serves as a reminder of writing's significance as a fundamental component of social interactions and a method of processing.
Jiuen Park
Reading, writing, forgetting and painting, 2020, oil pastel on paper, 299 x 150 cm
Jieun Park
Untitled, 2020, asian pigment on paper, 70 x 180 cm
Jieun Park
Roter Punkt | 30, 2023, oil pastel on wood, 100 x 70 cm
Jieun Park
Untitled, 2023, acrylic on wood, 25 x 30 cm
Jieun Park
Untitled, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
Jieun Park
Untitled, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 70 cm
Jieun Park
Untitled, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
Jieun Park
Untitled, 2023, acrylic on wood, 30 x 15 cm
Jieun Park
Untitled, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 33 x 48,5 cm
Jieun Park
Untitled, 2023, acrylic on wood, 30 x 25 cm
Jieun Park
Untitled, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm