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Aeri Park "Self-Portrait"
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Aeri Park
Aeri Park was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1992, grew up in Gyeonggi-do, Korea, and graduated from Musashino Art University in 2021, majoring in printmaking. Currently enrolled in the printmaking course of the MFA program at the same university, she was selected for the "3rd Nami International Picture Book Illustration Competition" in 2017 and the "Genkosha Illustration 214th The Choice" in 2020. In 2021, Park was selected for the "5th Awagami International Mini-Print Exhibition" and won the Excellence Award at the "8th Kanae Yamamoto Printmaking Grand Prize Exhibition."
As Park has stated, "I may have been drawing a private novel with copperplate prints all along." Park has consistently traced her roots as a third-generation Korean living in Japan, born in Japan and raised in Korea, through her artwork. Park, who first encountered a print press at a picture book college in Korea and began printmaking to produce original illustrations and picture books, has created fictional works modeled on her parents, who live in Japan and Korea, using only images.
While a student at Musashino Art University, Park created self-portraits of her childhood so as not to depict her face.
For her graduation project, to trace her roots, Park used a photo of her grandmother, a first-generation zainichi Korean, working at the Modaikogyo factory in Osaka during the war, and made a copper plate print of it.
This exhibition will feature Park's own childhood photographs and prints depicting familiar objects. Despite the title "Self-Portrait," Park says, "I always feel there is a gap between my work and my actual life.”
This seems to be because Park uses ordinary photos of memories and family members in her home and landscapes she has seen in her own life in copperplate prints, which require many processes to produce, to add an objective perspective, and the matiere and lines unique to copperplate prints strengthen the narrative, giving the works a public character while depicting the individual.
Through this exhibition, which traces Park's life from the Zainichi series depicting her grandmother and father to her own life, she hopes the viewer will feel that there are diverse ways of being among people who are lumped together in a large frame and that there are warm memories and lives that many people take for granted.
As Park has stated, "I may have been drawing a private novel with copperplate prints all along." Park has consistently traced her roots as a third-generation Korean living in Japan, born in Japan and raised in Korea, through her artwork. Park, who first encountered a print press at a picture book college in Korea and began printmaking to produce original illustrations and picture books, has created fictional works modeled on her parents, who live in Japan and Korea, using only images.
While a student at Musashino Art University, Park created self-portraits of her childhood so as not to depict her face.
For her graduation project, to trace her roots, Park used a photo of her grandmother, a first-generation zainichi Korean, working at the Modaikogyo factory in Osaka during the war, and made a copper plate print of it.
This exhibition will feature Park's own childhood photographs and prints depicting familiar objects. Despite the title "Self-Portrait," Park says, "I always feel there is a gap between my work and my actual life.”
This seems to be because Park uses ordinary photos of memories and family members in her home and landscapes she has seen in her own life in copperplate prints, which require many processes to produce, to add an objective perspective, and the matiere and lines unique to copperplate prints strengthen the narrative, giving the works a public character while depicting the individual.
Through this exhibition, which traces Park's life from the Zainichi series depicting her grandmother and father to her own life, she hopes the viewer will feel that there are diverse ways of being among people who are lumped together in a large frame and that there are warm memories and lives that many people take for granted.
Schedule | Oct 21 (Sat) 2023-Nov 25 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Oct 14 (Sat) 2023 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Gallery MoMo Projects https://en.gallery-momo.com/  | ||||
| Location | 2F 6-2-6 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | Near exit 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya line, 3 minute walk from exit 3 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3405-4339 | ||||
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