Visual artist Park Jung-ae's solo exhibition, 'In Between,' at user-shared space planC until the 10th.
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Lee ByungJae(2025-10-03 11:32:03)
Young visual artist Park Jung-ae (Revi), who is active in the Jeonbuk region, will be holding a solo exhibition titled "In Between" at the alternative cultural space, PlanC, located in Jeonju Hanok Village from October 2nd to 10th. The exhibition will run until October 10th, with viewing hours from 12 PM to 6 PM.
This exhibition records the artist's childhood space submerged underwater due to the construction of the Yongdam Dam through video, installations, and painting works, capturing the process of confronting difficult and vague inner sensations.
The background for the exhibition is '1240 Jupyeong-ri, Sangjeon-myeon, Jinan-gun,' where the artist spent her childhood at the site of the 'Jupyeong Elementary School.' Due to the Yongdam Dam construction project, the original Jupyeong Bridge was blocked, becoming part of the Yongdam Lake, now only existing as GPS coordinates.
Growing up attending school, the artist had to witness familiar spaces associated with the words 'relocation' and 'compensation' being destroyed, scattered, and submerged in the process of change. Even though the school disappeared after the dam construction, facing the lingering vague emotions, the artist reflects, "I might have chosen to forget rather than acknowledge the disappearance of the place physically, as I was too young to accept that reality."
This exhibition is the result of a journey to confront those faint and uncomfortable emotions directly. The artist went through a process of reviving inner memories by searching for the exact location of the submerged school through old maps. Following the traces that still remain within, the artist expressed the discomfort and unexpressed emotions that individuals had to endure within the massive national project through various mediums.
The artist explained the significance of the work, stating, "Only by facing the uncomfortable emotions as they are, could I finally mourn, bid farewell, and properly say goodbye." Reflecting on the end of a long journey, the artist mentioned, "What I encountered at the end was the still-living 'Jupyeong,'" adding, "This exhibition is a record of lost places and times, and now, my belated farewell."