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Focus 2025: The new perspective | Haevan Lee, Sunkyo Park, Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho

6 Dec - 21 Dec 2024

PBG Hannam

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PBG proudly presents a group exhibition Focus 2025: The New Perspective from 6th of December running through the 21st of December, 2024. Participating in the exhibition are Haevan Lee, who visualizes agile yet painterly perspective that the artist projects to border zones; Sun-Kyo Park, who unfolds narratives of harmony and anxiety through characters influenced by 8-bit digital games; Michael Ho, who redefines the boundaries of painting and sculpture navigating between images and signs. Each artist participating in the exhibition interprets a variety of subject matters in different ways.

Haevan Lee is a contemporary artist who explores the geopolitical landscape of border and buffer zone across the globe in the form of a painterly study of such sites. She utilizes landscape painting, storytelling, and historical research to delve into the complexities of border politics and ecology. Through various forms of expression such as painting, installation, and video, she captures the regional context of specific sites. For instance, in DMZ Landscape Series, she turned photography-prohibited areas into paintings. The artist has created painting-sculptures by superimposing the layers of landscapes that she experienced while staying at Peace Culture Bunker, an anti-tank defense shelter built after armed North Korean guerillas invaded Seoul in January 1968, and presented the works in the exhibition Goliaths, Tanks (Seoul, 2018). Furthermore, she collaborates with multinational artists, researchers, and experts from diverse fields to examine the sustainability of collectives across borders.

Sunkyo Park creates modern portrait paintings where he reflects the tension and anxiety that individuals experience within social communities mixing with graphic elements discovered in retro games. One thing that distinguishes the artist’s painting is the figures’ posture; sitting their legs folded. This represents the paradox of social community that suppresses individuals for the sake of community. His style derives from early experience as a child that he used to sit down with neighbor families and hold Christian services. In another sense, the posture also represents the unity of the people whom he had shared time with and the ideal community that he imagines.

Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho is a multi-cultural artist who inherits Cantonese, Japanese and American background. His practice delves into the complexities of cultural identity, linguistic expression, and the fragmented nature of modern existence. Utilizing 3D forms, painted collage, and trompe-l'oeil-shaped canvases, Ho creates a dynamic interplay between materiality and flatness, merging digital precision with a tangible sense of humanity. Ho’s work is deeply informed by semiotics and sociolinguistics, examining how language constructs meaning and reflects cultural identities. By incorporating text as both a visual and conceptual element, he investigates generational anxieties through dark humor and satire. Ho’s text-based works engage with contemporary cultural and linguistic phenomena, reflecting the ephemeral and mutable nature of language in the digital age.

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