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The Non-organic Organism
People, animals, and nature richly populate Munhee Park’s works in an altered state; they dwell veiled manifold, like puzzles. Park refuses to neither surrender the slight clues nor transparently release their identity. Instead of recognizing the object as “being such and such,” and claiming virtual ownership immediately upon casting eyes upon the object, the viewer is encouraged to infer reasoning and ask “what could this be?” This indirect, circumnavigating detour of a method is Park’s underlying theme of enquiry into living organisms. Strange organisms that appear to be a conglomeration of several objects cannot be grasped intuitively as a singular object, but viewed as a combined illustration of multiple relationships. Even works created from a single substance gives the impression of eclecticism, and the “cover,” found on many of his works create discord between the interior and the exterior.
Although Park’s works appear to consider organisms as the object, they do not feel naturally occurring as life is, but rather contrived, beckoning the visitor to participate in an epistemic game proposed by his reconstruction. The scope of the term relationship covers the exchange between heterogenic(dissimilar) aspects that compose the object(homogenic), and also between the agent and the object. In this context, the artist’s works deal with organisms without being organic themselves. Park’s processes focus on the devices that infer an absence or transformation of the object in question. The devices are not indulgences to the unsolvable enigma, but a beckoning to exploration, where contradictions and paradoxes are commonplace. Park’s art is oriented on organisms, and sometimes even take the form of an organism with free will. In his work, life is not a self-evident place of departure, but an unknown destination to be sought. An object may be understood in ways as diverse as the means through which it can be expressed. Unanswerable abstractive questions like those revolving around the origin and purpose of life are not found in Park’s works. Suggested instead are realistic conditions necessary to be recognized as life.

LEE, Sun Young (Art Critic)

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