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Jinyong Park

London

Artist Statement

My work starts from my daily linguistic experience. I approach the use of language as a phenomenological experience for which my body is pivotal as a reservoir of my personal history. When I experience spoken words or phonemes–sounds that I can express in writing–I recognise this as both a physical and psychological experience. The texture of my body is rearranged in a certain way that is relevant to each experience. I think about my relationship with their referential meanings (if any), but this soon leads to my manipulating them in a sort of wordplay that can be decoded only by understanding my personal experience. This includes bridging the spaces between my mother tongue and foreign languages in a random and illogical way.

I translate the amalgam of the sense of the body and the abstract imagination into geometric forms. The process of composing the surface of painting is similar to the repetitive practice of writing a discovered word. Through repetition, the image of the experience is strengthened, and its internal complexities are elucidated. Through this, I make my own hieroglyphs that embrace and deliver the personal narratives. I make my paintings concentrated ‘things’ of the paint and the paper through a repetitive process of manual painting and sanding. I work with drafting tools, such as sharp pencils, rulers, bradawls, and paper laid on a table, by which I find my way of working similar to that of a writer who develops a palimpsest in their own language.

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Jinyong Park's Portfolio

Jinyong Park, accio, Acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, 2019
Jinyong Park, aːsks, Acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, 2018
Jinyong Park, chorɔːk (green), Acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, 2017
Jinyong Park, darl, Acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, 2018
Jinyong Park, gul, Acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, 2018
Jinyong Park, i- i-, Acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, 2018
Jinyong Park, laim, Acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, 2019
Jinyong Park, Snæps, Acrylic, coloured pencil on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, 2017
Jinyong Park, Snæps (Square Painting), Acrylic on canvas, 155 x 155 cm, 2019
Jinyong Park, θʌ́ŋk (Study on The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian by Pollaiuolo brothers), Acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, 2019

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Artist Biography

Jinyong Park is a South Korean artist based in London. She has been persistently interested in the daily linguistic experience, which is based on her mother language, Korean, where the words are based on the shapes of the speaker’s mouth when pronouncing them. This enabled her to approach the use of the language as a phenomenological experience. When she moved to London in 2013, her bilingual experience reinforced her interest in the language and brought her painting to a more personal level. Since she graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2015 with her MA in Painting, she has participated in various forms of exhibitions, projects and publications mainly in London. Recent exhibitions include: Salad Days, Young Space; Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize 2018, Ingram Collection; Window Project 2012-2018, Gazelli Art House; Our Universes Meet through the Word-holes (Window Project Spring 2018), Gazelli Art House; Griffin Art Prize 2017, Griffin Gallery.

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