Kevin Park Jung-Hoo
Image Credit: Sungjin Lee
About the Artist
Kevin Park Jung-Hoo is a Korean-Canadian filmmaker and visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. His work is deeply influenced by his experience of navigating multiple cultures and geographies, having been born and raised in Canada, spending his adolescence in Korea, and returning to Canada as an adult. He approaches art as a way to reflect on and seek a sense of belonging, exploring these themes through the lens of postcolonial and decolonial ideas.
Park’s work delves into migration, identity, and the concept of home, often framed through personal and collective memory. His experimental approach spans film, video, photography, and performance, where he creates new relationships between images to question how individuals reconstruct their perceptions of time and space. Recently, his focus has shifted from telling personal narratives to critically engaging with the socio-political dimensions of the Image itself.
Inspired by the words of his late grandmother — "In the past, people feared the camera, believing it took part of their soul" — Park reflects on the dual nature of the Image as both an invasive, colonial tool and a vessel for profound recollection. This insight shapes his exploration of the power dynamics embedded in image-making and the ways in which images can either impose or reclaim meaning. Through his work, Park invites viewers to engage with these complexities and reconsider the role of images in shaping personal and collective identity.
Still from Symptoms, by Kevin Park Jung-Hoo
About the Project
Presented at Bouclair from March 17th to April 27th 2025
Symptoms (2025) is a continuation of Park’s on-going series “Drawing, Belonging” – a video series that visualizes emotional landscapes with chroma key technology through the act of painting through a single continuous shot merged with a series of creative writing.
The work presents a personal narrative of the silent narrator describing their moment of denial of their being within the city, slowly submerging into their ocean of tears, until an unexpected encounter of a friend. The shifting imagery of the city to abstract gestures of “home-building” comes from Park’s reflection on the contemporary era marked by division and conflict – the concept of “place” often becomes an ideological battleground with a diminishing sense of community – and the rising importance of simple gestures of care.
