WONJEONG DEPARTMENT STORE graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Korea National University of Arts. She currently lives and works in Seoul.
HITE
Collection presents 《The Last Things
Before the Last》 as its 2022 Young Artist Exhibition,
featuring Park Rondi, WONJEONG DEPARTMENT STORE, and TZUSOO. “The power that
governs our imagination possesses absolute control over us” (Markus Gabriel).
This exhibition seeks to examine the worlds and forces toward which the
sensibilities and imaginations of young artists are directed.
Park
Rondi is interested in amplifying personal history into social phenomena,
working across media such as drawing, textiles, performance, and ceramics. In
this exhibition, she focuses on tracing the formation of her aesthetic
worldview and the origins of visual desire within the context of
hyper-capitalism, examining the past in order to endure the present and
recalibrate the relationship between the self and the collective.
WONJEONG
DEPARTMENT STORE explores desires for fantastical imagery and how such images
connect to the worlds of others, primarily through media installation and
performance. Borrowing the form of myth, she uses herself as material,
transmitting her work through contemporary sensibilities. Her practice moves
between the polished imagery of screens and damp, visceral movements of the
present, expanding spatiotemporal experience.
TZUSOO
investigates the conditions of human existence and identity within digital
environments, unfolding narratives about ourselves and the world as we move
toward “the end.” By revealing the uncanniness perceived in the transition
between virtual and physical worlds, she constructs characters liberated from
the constraints of physical bodies and imagines an art that can endure even
within a disembodied realm.
The
exhibition title, 《The Last Things
Before the Last》, quotes the subtitle of Siegfried
Kracauer’s History. It is reinterpreted here as a term
capable of articulating diverse aesthetic possibilities emerging in an era
marked by the culmination of consumer capitalism and the proliferation of
worldviews that transcend reality.
