“Searching for Karma” Installation view at OCI Museum of Art ©OCI Museum of ArtOCI Museum of Art presents Searching for Karma, a solo exhibition by 2023 OCI YOUNG CREATIVES artist Park Seoyeon (b. 1993), from October 12 to November 11.
Park Seoyeon will present paintings that juxtapose fragmented figures on a multicolored and superimposed screen. The images are taken from popular culture such as webtoons, and novels, and include images of altars, dragons, and phoenixes in the middle of a chaotic screen. These images are understood as escapism or longing for reality within the general narrative of popular culture. But the artist takes the figures out of this narrative and brings them into work.
In doing so, they no longer take on meaning within the narrative, but remain merely symbolic images. The superimposition of colors and the images of popular culture form an incomplete web of meaning, giving the viewer more room for active interpretation.
Park’s paintings fill the second floor of the OCI Museum of Contemporary Art, either filling one wall in a row with no gaps or suspended in the air and stretching to the floor.
