Sun-Kyo Park grew up in a family with both Korean and Christian traditions, leading him to wonder why what seemed good in one was forbidden in the other. He eventually chose to take these contradictions as an opportunity to interpret the Bible from his own perspective.

He eventually chose to take these contradictions as an opportunity to interpret the Bible from his own perspective.

Due to his sensitivity, creating relationships with the rest of the children was difficult for him as a child, and even during his adolescence, seeing meanings that others did not see behind every opinion made him feel even more distanced from them. This led him to become obsessed with being true to himself and not lying, so he became restless when he realized that depending on who he was with, he acted in one way or another, he was cowardly or brave, loved or hated... he was afraid that because of this his body was divided into different spirits.

so he became restless when he realized that depending on who he was with, he acted in one way or another, he was cowardly or brave, loved or hated... he was afraid that because of this his body was divided into different spirits.

He captured this agony in art, but instead of portraying what he was looking for (the truth), he focused on the opposite: the lie. An approach that he owes to Nietzsche, who gave him the key to destroy the world he had perceived up to that moment and to reach the conclusion that the chaotic was the normal. Quantum mechanics, which lays different foundations for artistic imagination, was also of great help to him. "But perhaps it was a thought that I had no choice but to develop, as I grew up in a place called Korea, where the concept of relationship is extremely important," Sun-Kyo explains.

The current exhibition by Sun-Kyo Park “The distance between us” at Villazan LAB displays 15 new paintings through which he focuses on the concept of distance as an essential element for our own survival. In the artist’s own words “we survive because the organs in our physical bodies keep a reasonable distance from each other, rather than being tightly packed together”.

The exhibition will be on view until November 26, 2022 at Villazan LAB.