Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (GMoMA) presents Hyungjin Park: Other Times Another Time through a ‘Young Artist Project’ in 2022. The ‘Young Artist Project’ is an annual project of GMoMA to strengthen the creative capabilities of artists who are recognized for their potential in the contemporary art.

Hyungjin Park (b. 1986) drew attention from the field of contemporary arts for her work of recording the surrounding landscapes Park had experienced and observed in person. Her early works were mainly concerned with human greed and nature as an object of possession, and Park presented works that suggest the bare face of capitalism and reckless development. In the recent series of so-called ‘Color Dots,’ specific forms have disappeared and only colors remain, but the artist still makes nature a theme of her works. The ‘Color Dots’ series is a recording of the color changes of trees seen through the window of the artist's studio on a piece of paper. The artist collects the colors of the landscape at a specific time, and adds the work of mixing various pigments or creating colors by herself to realize the colors. If you look at the commentary that the artist added to the color palette of the colors she made herself, you can see that many elements such as time, place, weather, and emotions are dissolved in each color, The ‘Color Dots’ painted on grid paper like their can be seen as a product of the artist’s experience of time. The unit of time is 'minute' or 'hour' as short as possible, and it may represent one season at long. Hyungjin Park's work may appear to be one of numerous abstract works of color at first glance, but her work is distinctly different from other artists' works in that it captures the real paysage based on observation and record close to asceticism. In ther way, the rhythm created by ‘Color Dots’ on the grid paper can be read as a kind of landscape painting, and at the same time, it can be said that it serves to trace the natural order hidden in the repeated daily life. In addition, the grid, that is, the frame that contains colors, functions more than a simple formative element. The grid acts as a unit of time, space, and color while dividing the screen. The origins of the use of grids can be found in her early works, and she expressed the land as a human possession by borrowing the grid as a unit of land surveying. The grid used in her recent work can be seen as being used as a frame for moving and structuring the changes of trees over time that Park experienced on a flat surface.

In particular, in the exhibition, new works that reflect the artist's new interests will be introduced as an extension of the Color Dots series under the theme of ‘Time.’ The series of Ginkgo (2021~2022) that welcomes visitors at the entrance of the gallery shows an attempt to reduce not only the color but also the shape of the ginkgo to a grid. The artist says that she recalled the ginkgo tree in her memory of vivid yellow under the exceptionally clear sky last year when people disappeared on the streets. Her other new work, Clover (2022), presents the viewer with a pleasant imagination of grasping the fortune that exists somewhere outside the window. Meanwhile, in A circle without a knot (2020~2021), Park recorded the rapidly changing number of COVID-19 confirmed patients in an unprecedented pandemic situation as a circle on a piece of paper. The long wearing journey of a circle that repeated painting and erasing visualizes everyone's ongoing anxiety. Along with her new work, which reflects the changes brought by the pandemic and the trajectory of time, the title of the exhibition, ‘Other Times Another Time’ also reveals the artist’s attitude towards time. Hyungjin Park's work of constantly recalling the past to record the present and exploring the future is reminiscent of the theory of time of Edmund Husserl (1859~1938). Edmund Husserl emphasized the vertical flow of time where the past and the future coexist with the present as the connecting point. The exhibition is not a linear flow of past-present-future, but rather a fragment of time experienced, remembered, and rearranged by the artist. Through “the same and different times” conveyed by ginkgo trees, clovers and circles, we expect the visitors to experience the time represented in the work and further draw the trajectories of their respective times.