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PARK Jihye, <Affection>, HD video, sound, 06'43", 2016
PARK Jihye Affection
The yardstick by which an individual’s values are defined can be classified by social standards. In other words, conflicts arise when such values are accepted by external influences, or get frustrated. However, individuals’ desires are restrained at least to a certain extent as they are regulated by social standards. Thus, the forms of each individual desire may differ, but psychological anxiety caused by such social pressures is inherent in every relationship, and such anxiety connects one individual to the other in a complicated manner. This is expressed in the form of continuing violence in the modern society. I recognize such violence as a problem related to relationships and its interactivity, and tries to lay them out in the form of an artwork. Contemplation on relationships is closely related to not some gigantic existence but love, romantic relationship, jealousy, compassion, and those closest to an individual’s daily life. The closest relationship is a space dominated by much more customs, myths, and formalities than any other relationships. That space may seem like a venue created by an encounter between two individuals, but in fact it is a complicated venue in which numerous concepts and desires collide, exchange, and compromise, and a venue in which basic conflicts lay dormant. The artist captures unilateral obsession, desires hidden behind close relationships, and violence lying beneath the surface present in relationships by combining personal experiences and real life incidents with symbolic objects, stories or fairy tales. She produces an immensely realistic yet unrealistic video by creating aggressive situations in which not only affection and conflicts in relationships, but also the hidden ironies, conflicts and anxiety of forming relationships with societies intersect at a junction in which horizontal time and vertical time crosses each other. |
