Insane PARK, Disposable
Mask for Amateur Vandals: INSTRUCTION MANUAL, 2025, Digital print,
Dimensions variable. ©Insane PARK. Courtesy of the Artist and
ARARIO GALLERY.ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL presents a solo
exhibition 《Avant-Garde
Does Not Surrender》 by artist Insane PARK, through
December 6.
Insane PARK has consistently pursued a
practice rooted in a sustained exploration of media and images, exposing the
limits of perception and the conventional visual systems we accept without
question.
By analyzing and deconstructing repeatedly
exposed and fixed images, he reveals—without embellishment—the essence and
boundaries of human cognition and thought as mediated through the act of
“seeing.” Moving fluidly across video, installation, painting, and photography,
his works go beyond formal experimentation to subversively expose the political
and cultural structures that define contemporary society.
In this exhibition, he re-invokes the
avant-garde attitude through the lens of vandalism. Vandalism, while
self-contradictory and rebellious, is also a movement that negates existing
systems, generating new perspectives and discourses. Drawing on digital
technologies, Insane PARK experiments with pseudo-documentary video, motion
graphics, and works that adopt the format of SNS live streaming, dismantling
the authority and safeguards of institutional art.
Graffiti layered over old buildings or
messages scattered across artworks are not simply acts of destruction for him,
but gestures of resistance against authority and oppression. He redefines acts
of defacement as processes of reinterpretation—shaking existing orders and
hierarchies while simultaneously injecting new meaning.
Taking place in the basement level of
ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, this exhibition questions the possibilities of resistance
through art, probing the ambivalent forces of destruction and creation,
authority and defiance, as they emerge through vandalism.
