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Insane Park

INSANE PARK

Avant-Garde Does Not Surrender Arario Gallery 16 October–6 December 2025 Seoul
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ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL presents Avant-Garde Does Not Surrender, a solo exhibition by Insane PARK (b. 1980, Korea), on view from Thursday 16 October to Saturday 6 December 2025. PARK has long explored the realm of media and images, consistently creating works that reveal the limitations of conventional visual systems and the modes of perception we often take for granted.

By analyzing and deconstructing repeatedly circulated and fixed images, he presents works that candidly expose both the essence and limitations of human cognition and thought as mediated through the act of ‘seeing.’ Working fluidly across video, installation, painting, and photography, his practice extends beyond formal experimentation to subversively uncover the political and cultural structures that shape contemporary society.

Presented on the basement floor of ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, this exhibition questions the possibilities of resistance through art, exploring the ambivalent forces of destruction and creation, authority and defiance that emerge through vandalism.

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Exhibition view: Insane Park, Insane PARK : Avant-Garde Does Not Surrender, ARARIO Gallery, Seoul (16 October–6 December 2025). Courtesy ARARIO Gallery.
Exhibition view: Insane Park, Insane PARK : Avant-Garde Does Not Surrender, ARARIO Gallery, Seoul (16 October–6 December 2025). Courtesy ARARIO Gallery.
Exhibition view: Insane Park, Insane PARK : Avant-Garde Does Not Surrender, ARARIO Gallery, Seoul (16 October–6 December 2025). Courtesy ARARIO Gallery.
Exhibition view: Insane Park, Insane PARK : Avant-Garde Does Not Surrender, ARARIO Gallery, Seoul (16 October–6 December 2025). Courtesy ARARIO Gallery.
Exhibition view: Insane Park, Insane PARK : Avant-Garde Does Not Surrender, ARARIO Gallery, Seoul (16 October–6 December 2025). Courtesy ARARIO Gallery.
Exhibition view: Insane Park, Insane PARK : Avant-Garde Does Not Surrender, ARARIO Gallery, Seoul (16 October–6 December 2025). Courtesy ARARIO Gallery.
About the Artist

Insane Park’s works mimic images from TV, and speak about the artist’s concerned outlook on media. The contemporary public homogeneously and passively absorbs the excessive production of fictional media images, arriving at a point where active imagination and complex thinking nears impossibility. In particular, the most familiar TV programs enforce the public to blindly absorb the fabrication in which real and virtual worlds coexist. Just as an ordinary subject transforms into an extraordinary one through media, Park’s works using cable lines portray people around him as if they were criminals, missing children or wanted people on a flyer. The artist focuses on such emotional effect of media on man, and delivers the subjectively experienced feelings of anxiety onto the canvas. However, the artist leaves the audience open to different degrees of anxiety, and invites different subjective interpretations on the aura of his work.

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About the Gallery

ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL opened its doors in Sogyeok-dong in 2006. Since then, it has established its foothold as a leading contemporary art gallery in Korea and across Asia, continuing to be at the forefront of the international art scene through its efficient representation system and bold exhibitions. In March 2014, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL relocated near the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. In April 2018, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL RYSE HOTEL, a second exhibition space in Seoul, opened in the Hongdae area. Running concurrently with its primary location until November 2019, the project space aimed to mirror the experimental spirit of the neighbourhood through its innovative programming. In 2022, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL ended its Sogyeok-dong era. However, the various experimentation and ventures carried out in the gallery’s previous spaces continue to shape its future at its current location in Wonseo-dong, which reopened in February 2023. Through the preemptive discovery of young artists, steady support of represented artists, and the realisation of meaningful and original exhibitions, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL aims to continually grow and contribute to the growth of the contemporary art scene in Korea.

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Arario Gallery contemporary art gallery in Seoul South Korea
Arario Gallery
85, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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http://www.arariogallery.com

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11am – 6pm
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