|
|
 |
 |
| |
| Jooyeon ParkFull Moon Wish |
 |
| May 11 - June 2, 2006 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Full Moon Wish, soap bubble drawing, beam projector, curtain, 2006 |
|
|
|
|
The exhibition incorporates elements from the play “En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot),” the “Theatre of the Absurd” by Samuel Beckett. The title of the exhibition, “Full Moon Wish,” is also the title of Park's installation work, which reinterprets the moon as it appears on stage during the play. During the exhibition, “En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot)” will be performed by members of the BH Production company, which includes five Irish cast members. Park’s installation work will be used as part of the set during the play.
A drawing produced by mixing soap bubbles with ink will be displayed on one side of the exhibition hall with a rising full moon. A soap bubble drawing is accomplished by blowing soap bubbles on paper with carefully controlled breaths. The soap bubble drawing embodies the artist's continual interest in the visible and the invisible, hope and vanity, finiteness and infiniteness, brief moments and memory and space and compassion. Park creates images by using minimalist methods just as in her past works. In the exhibition these images correspond to the descriptions of simplicity and meaningless existence in Beckett's plays.
Works with text written by the artist on an image of manuscript paper after screen printing will be displayed on the other side of the exhibition hall. “Lucky,’’ which was created directly on the wall, contains words that the artist transcribed as part of the lines of Lucky, a character in “En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot).” This part of the play features a monologue by Lucky, and although the words sound like those of someone intellectual and knowledgeable, they are mere mixtures of absurd and incomprehensible sounds.
Park's interest in absurd language started with a work titled “Telling Nakahara Chuya,” which was produced in Japan in 2005. The artist requested that local residents explain a poem by Nakahara Chuya called “Yogoregimata Ganashimini” while she was participating in the Akiyoshidai International Art Village Residence Program, and created a poem by recomposing the words expressed by imperfect linguistic communication. The text for “Lucky” was created in a similar fashion. The words reflect Beckett’s philosophy, which believes that man’s only refuge is in laughter because of the absurdity of our lives and the incompetence of language as a sound means of communication. Park also shows her hope for communication through space between seemingly meaningless rhythms in spite of finiteness, emptiness and loneliness.
|
|
| |
|
