36th publication

Elephant in the Room J e e

Hanmi

Gallery

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Interim

36th

Exhibition

36th Interim Exhibiton Elephant in the Room JeeHee Park

Throughout the summer of 2014, Hanmi Gallery has proudly presented a variety of interim exhibitions responding to our artists chosen theme. Jeehee Park’s Elephant in the Room has granted spectators the chance to interact and understand contemporary art in an entirely unexpected and unique way.

Hanmi Gallery’s exclusive interim exhibition programme responds to the gallery space’s raw and stripped-back state. The distinctive gallery setting offers artists and curators an opportunity to engage with a space different to that of the stereotypical ‘white cube’ gallery.

It allows them to explore how site resonates with an artistic endeavor and the effects that it has both spatially and psychologically in the gallery setting. The site Hanmi Gallery offers has become an arena for experimentation, inspiring artists and spectators to look at the space, and the art within it, in a new way. Despite the sites numerous curatorial challenges, our artist’s have engaged with the space intimately and personally to showcase and foster visual culture that reflects the present-day.

Utilising a variety of mediums from fruit and batteries to lace and concrete, Park highlights Hanmi Gallery’s specific commitment to new media and interdisciplinary work.

Jeehee Park

Jeehee Park, Research of Lace Curtain in Aylesbury, 2014. Lasercutting on acrylic panel, 118 x 78 x 3cm.

Jeehee Park, Research of Lace Curtain in Aylesbury, 2014. Lasercutting on acrylic panel, 26.3 x 60 x 2cm.

Jeehee Park, Fruit Battery, 2014. before and after.

Copper pipes, concrete, copper clips, zonc plates, fruits.

Jeehee Park, Drawings, 2014. Copper tape and zinc plates on paper (mixed media collage), 81.5 x 61.

Jeehee Park Jeehee Park (b.1984, Seoul) is a visual artist. Combining basic scientific experiments and architectural structures, she aims to reveal social issues through her sculptures. Her works are multidisciplinary, including both sculpture and installation drawings. She began her research by exploring juxtaposing materials, from building to organic materials, and concludes that a certain sense of beauty coexists between two mediums.

Jeehee is a recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Young Sculpture Prize and has worked with Art and Business for Laird PLC commission work. Her recent exhibitions include the MFA degree show at Slade School of Fine Art and the Symposium at the OXO tower.

Jeehee Park, Drawing (Lace), 2014. Paper tape on mirror board, 28 x 47 cm.

Jeehee Park, Research of Lace Curtain in Aylesbury, 2014. Lasercutting on acrylic panel, 118 x 78 x 3cm.

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