Installation view of 《Truth Matters, But Not Ours》 © Kumho Museum of Art
Kumho Museum of Art presents a solo
exhibition 《Truth Matters, But
Not Ours》 by artist Park Hyesoo, on view through October
18.
Park Hyesoo (b. 1974) is a visual artist whose
multidisciplinary, participatory practice is rooted in sculpture and
installation. Since being selected for the 10th Kumho Young Artist program at
Kumho Museum of Art in 2010, she has developed a distinctive artistic practice,
earning the Grand Prize at the 2014 SONGEUN Art Award and being shortlisted for
the 2019 Korea Artist Prize at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Korea.
This exhibition marks Park's twelfth solo exhibition and
brings her back to Kumho Museum of Art sixteen years after the museum first
recognized her potential as an emerging artist, offering a timely opportunity
to revisit her practice at a significant stage in her artistic career.
Installation view of 《Truth Matters, But Not Ours》 © Kumho Museum of Art
Throughout her career, Park has explored the relationship
between the individual and society by transforming personal stories and broader
social structures into shared experiences that invite audience participation.
While Park's practice unfolds through an expanding series of interconnected
questions, it remains rooted in the overlooked stories that lie beneath the
surface of everyday life.
Bringing together sculpture, video, installation,
performance and publication, this exhibition traces the trajectory of Park's
inquiry from her earliest works to the present, placing participation at the
center of the viewing experience.
In particular, the exhibition presents ‘Our Unknown
Country’ (2019-present), the fourth chapter of her long-running Project
Dialogue, initiated in the early 2000s. Through this series, Park examines the
Korean notion of “Uri (we)”—a collective identity—and the ways individual
subjectivities are formed within it through the lens of truth.
Installation view of 《Truth Matters, But Not Ours》 © Kumho Museum of Art
Through this exhibition, Kumho Museum of Art invites
visitors to consider the question that Park poses: Who is your “we”? This
question asks us to reconsider what we have chosen to believe, what we have
remained silent about in the name of collective solidarity and survival, and
how truth comes to be valued in that process.
The exhibition leaves these questions open, encouraging
visitors to carry them beyond the gallery and into their everyday lives.
