For Kejoo Park, time is not a linear measure, but a resonance space. In the exhibition Echoes in Time 2, the artist approaches this phenomenon through installations, paintings and sculptural interventions in which man, nature and technology meet not as opposites, but as inseparably interwoven processes. Material, sound, space and memory overlap to form multi-layered stratifications in which the past reverberates and the present becomes physically tangible.
Based on groundbreaking work cycles such as Das Lied von der Erde, Das Erde-Projekt and Genius Loci, Park understands landscape as a living repository of collective experience. Elements such as water, lines, steam or sedimented surfaces bear traces of time – as sedimentation, compaction, erosion or resonance. The stones she uses in particular function as visible evidence of geological duration and at the same time as fragile carriers of individual memory. Time manifests itself in them in different aggregate states: as pressure, as a trace, as a break and as continuity. For Park, these stones are silent chroniclers that bear the evidence of time in many different forms.
The inspiration for Park’s work comes from a deep dialog with European intellectual history and her own roots. The spirit of Romanticism resonates in her works, as do influences from literature and music that deal with the relationship between nature and time. As an artist of Korean origin, a specific cultural perspective also shapes her perception of landscape, cycle and transcendence. Between these perspectives, an independent, contemporary aesthetic emerges that appears natural and at the same time consistently leads to abstraction. It is a perception of nature that does not merely depict, but makes the world tangible in a new, essential way.
The exhibition title Echoes in Time 2 refers to a double understanding of time: simultaneity and repetition, echo and reverberation. Park’s works do not explain; they open up spaces of experience. They invite us to linger, to listen and to feel how time inscribes itself into material and how spaces begin to respond. The exhibition brings together works from different work cycles and condenses the themes of time, memory and the interconnectedness of our world into accessible echo spaces.
Part of the proceeds from this exhibition will be donated to a charitable organization.