CITIZEN'S FOREST

Citizen’s Forest is a panoramic three-channel video presented like a traditional “shan-su (landscape)” scroll painting. The work is a critical allegory of Korean modern history as well as a requiem for the many nameless people who sacrificed their lives during those tumultuous
periods. Park was inspired by two works: the poem Colossal Roots (1964) by Kim Soo-young (1921 – 1968) and the painting The Lemures (1984) by Oh Yoon (1946 – 1986), the former, which embodied a modern idea that was new yet poignantly reflected on tradition, and the latter, an artwork that successfully adopted folk religions as a channel to communicate and empathize with the public. 

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2023  Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C.

2017  Art Basel Unlimited 2017, Art Basel, Basel

2017  안녕 安寧 Farewell, Kukje gallery

2017  Ghosts and Spectres - Shadows of History, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

2016  Gestures and archives of the present, genealogies of the future, Taipei Biennial 2016