EUGENE PARK
Yellow Saga
March 21 - April 29, 2022
Eugene Park, Yellow Saga [Saga jaune], 2021
Exhibition description
In the York Vitrines, Eugene Park’s Yellow Saga pairs two bodies of work which examine how shades of yellow have gained multi-layered meanings in contemporary society and throughout human history. A wall painting composed of selected hues of domestic yellow paint is coupled with poetry formed using the names of these commercial paint colours. The connections that emerge between the poems and the featured colours create arbitrary semiotics and generate narratives around otherness and distorted oriental fantasy. Alongside this is a site-specific work created using everyday yellow objects found in Montreal during the installation of the work.
Access the poem here.
About the Artist
Eugene Park is an interdisciplinary artist from Seoul, South Korea, currently based in Vancouver. She makes installations with unorthodox materials and generates narratives. Through meticulous juxtaposition, Park questions the stability of the material world and our place within it.
She obtained her BFA from Ewha Woman's University in Seoul, South Korea, and her MFA from Concordia University. She received the 2018 Sylvie and Simon Blais Award for Emerging Visual Artists from Sylvie and Simon Blais Foundation and the Yeon Tak Chang Scholarship for Korean emerging artists from the Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation.
Website : parkeugene.com
IG : @eugene_park_
