“Flat Fire” Installation view at Gallery SP ©Gallery SP
Gallery SP presents Flat Fire, a solo exhibition by Dasom Park (b. 1989), on view from July 18 to August 17. Dasom Park chooses ‘dreams’ as her painterly methodology. She utilizes the time and space of dreams to endure the inevitable transformation and loss that occur over time. She also focuses on the process of oblivion, in which dreams are forgotten after waking up. She represents the time, space, and bodies in dreams that have lost their context. The artist often works with broad strokes on paper in non-standardized shapes and sizes to depict these themes.
In this exhibition, the artist takes a step beyond her previous focus on the body and looks at bodies that gather and disperse with the heat, visualizing the relationship between bodies and heat. The works in the exhibition feel like a gaze toward the stage, and they seem to create a specific space, creating a theatrical atmosphere. In < Cold People > (2023), a human figure appears without clothes in front of a fire. The scene evokes both the movement of running away from the fire and the movement of approaching the fire.
The title of the exhibition ‘Flat Fire’ refers to the artist’s attempt to capture the form of fire in her paintings, which acknowledges the limitations of flatness while utilizing the freedom it offers. Through the exhibition, viewers will be able to experience the heat of summer anew as they sense the unique spaces, shapes, and fires that the artist has created from winter to spring.
