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Dummy 60
Park Woung-kyu - Between Disgust and Sacredness
These works from Park Woung-kyu's "Dummy" series might make you hesitate—insects, organs, unknown masses fill screens, yet familiar religious forms also appear.
From distance, they look like solemn Buddhist paintings, but closer inspection reveals meticulously depicted images we instinctively want to avoid, all coexisting in one screen.
"Dummy" means "shell" or "fake." The artist questions beings appearing sacred but actually anxious and alien.
The series consists of 108 paintings inspired by Buddhism's "108 worldly desires." Each maintains traditional Buddhist composition while containing instinctively unpleasant forms like insects and organs.
Park doesn't arrange these chaotically but places them within precise, orderly sculptural systems, delivering subtle tension between disgust and sublimity.
Using Buddhist numerical symbolism, he arranges atypical images within new visual order. Insects are no longer insects—they're reborn as beings projecting human emotion.
Park transforms "peripheral beings" excluded by civilization into sacred forms, questioning sensory hierarchy and civilization's value systems, making us see difficult things we want to avoid.
From distance, they look like solemn Buddhist paintings, but closer inspection reveals meticulously depicted images we instinctively want to avoid, all coexisting in one screen.
"Dummy" means "shell" or "fake." The artist questions beings appearing sacred but actually anxious and alien.
The series consists of 108 paintings inspired by Buddhism's "108 worldly desires." Each maintains traditional Buddhist composition while containing instinctively unpleasant forms like insects and organs.
Park doesn't arrange these chaotically but places them within precise, orderly sculptural systems, delivering subtle tension between disgust and sublimity.
Using Buddhist numerical symbolism, he arranges atypical images within new visual order. Insects are no longer insects—they're reborn as beings projecting human emotion.
Park transforms "peripheral beings" excluded by civilization into sacred forms, questioning sensory hierarchy and civilization's value systems, making us see difficult things we want to avoid.