HYOJIN PARK

Park’s abstract forms of sculptural figures with painted eyeballs, innocent objects and bright images comprise her Kpop Venus series, which has been derived from her 2010 My Eyes Beheld the Glory series. Rather erotic and organic forms represent traditional notions of women’s physical and social obligations contrasted and provoked with colourful painterly patterns of naïve and childish objects. The eyeballs represent gazes of prejudice, jealousy, happiness and other emotions that women imagine or experience. Park’s version of Venus is a statement on the new millennium female’s social and notional designations. Historical Venuses have related contemporaneous thinking on female roles and have been manifested through different legendary and womanly figures including Venus of Willendorf and Venus of Milo in the West and statues of Buddhist Bodhisattvas in the East.