JUNEBUM PARK (KOREA)

Junebum Park’s video works marry ideas of theatre with contemporary concepts of space and illusion. Everyday scenes such as parking a car or crossing the road are animated by Park's hands - the artist is a giant manipulating the world. This distortion of perspective and spatial depth recalls the illusory devices employed in Japanese Bunraku performance.

Junebum Park was born in Seoul in 1976 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Department of Art Education at Sungkyunkwan University in 2003. Park’s video works have been shown extensively internationally, with solo exhibitions including To Let, Centre for the Urban Built Environment, Manchester, 2011; Archives, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, 2010, The Collapse, the Room, Tatal Museum of Contempoeray Art, Seoul, Videos, Gallery Koch und Kesslau, Berlin, Germany, 2004; and Crossing, Gallery Jungmiso, Seoul, Korea, 2003; and group exhibitions including Building Stories, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, 2012; The Occupation 2, CCP, Melbourne, 2012; Media Landscape, Zone East, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, 2008; Around the Questions of Urbanity, ARCO ’07, Madrid, 2007; Urban Legend Blurring spaces, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, 2006;  Parallel Life, Frankfurter Kunstverin, Frankfurt, 2005; Art Forum Berlin 04, Berlin, Germany, 2004; The Cobweb, (CGAC) Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Galicia, Spain, 2004; bizart video festival, Bizart Center, Shanghai, China, 2003; and reality bites, Alternative spaces LOOP, Seoul, Korea, 2002.

This information was current at the time of his residency.