Installation view of 《POLYGON PILGRIMS》 ©WWNN
WWNN presents 《POLYGON PILGRIMS》, a solo exhibition by artist Jaehun Park, on view through February
14.
The exhibition 《POLYGON PILGRIMS》
explores the figure of the contemporary
subject moving without orientation within a new universe composed of point
clouds and polygons, pixels and voxels, vectors and coordinates.
In Jaehun Park’s work, space emerges as a form of infinitely
connected grids. Yet the moment a collection of points acquires the structure
of a polygon, space immediately produces an inside and an outside,
institutionalizing rupture. Rather than guaranteeing continuity, this
connection accelerates fragmentation and structurally embeds sensations of loss
and alienation.
Here, the pilgrim is positioned not as a being who has lost the
way, but as a subject who has entered a world in which the very concept of a
“path” was never permitted in the first place.
Installation view of 《POLYGON PILGRIMS》 ©WWNN
At the center of this exhibition lies the repeatedly invoked
origin of the absolute coordinate system. Theoretically always positioned at
the center, yet experientially impossible to reach, this point resides beyond
the limits of perception, like an event horizon.
The polygon pilgrims move toward this origin, but their journey
does not presume arrival. Within the space of vectors, movement appears not as
a narrative of progress, but as a form of endless deferral sustained by desire
as its driving force.
Installation view of 《POLYGON PILGRIMS》 ©WWNN
Jaehun Park frames this virtual space as a site of pilgrimage.
Here, pilgrims construct space not with their hands but through interfaces,
summoning polygonal forms through the subtle tremors of tilted arrows.
These sculptures—architectures without interiors, machines that
have lost their memory—are stored within layers of voxels, replicated, and
endlessly branched into other versions. Oriented toward no final completion,
these forms reflect a contemporary condition of existence in which a life does
not arrive at a single, definitive destination.
Installation view of 《POLYGON PILGRIMS》 ©WWNN
《POLYGON PILGRIMS》 moves beyond the visual
representation of digital technology to critically reflect on the conditions of
human existence as they are formed within virtual space.
Jaehun Park presents a portrait of today’s pilgrim within a
world composed of coordinates and grids, data and interfaces—a subject who
moves toward an unreachable center, yet senses their own existence only within
the journey itself. Rather than completion or arrival, the exhibition quietly
reveals a contemporary mode of life shaped through continuous movement and
perpetual delay.
