Exhibition view of “Boma Pak: Baby” at Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul. (December 1 – December 30, 2023). Courtesy of the artist and the gallery.Boma Pak disrupts the value system formed in capitalist society and pays attention to and consoles the marginalized through drawing, painting, installation, and performance. Pak works with key concepts of ‘material,’ ‘substance,’ and ‘fake’ to express humble subjects consumed in our society and disappear before being fully realized, elusive to the touch.
In her current exhibition, Baby, the artist creates a persona of a baby who has undergone numerous rebirths, transforming the exhibition space through the perspective of such a baby. The artist encircles the exhibition space with sheets disguised as marble. The pink and apricot colors of the sheets and objects symbolize the light inside a mother’s womb, also metaphorically representing the baby’s delicate skin and the protection provided to the body by the skin.
The world seen through the eyes of a reborn baby is pure yet worldly. Babies read the world uniquely, but as they grow, they acquire societal systems and become confined within those frameworks to view the world. Through this exhibition, Boma Pak aims to dismantle the value system constructed by societal systems, recalling various subjects marginalized in our perspective.
Born in 1988, Boma Pak presented Ritual of Matter (2023) as part of the Leeum Museum of Art’s Space Project, highlighting the next generation of Korean artists. She also participated in the group exhibition Living in Joy (2023) at the Art Sonje Center, featuring female artists in their 30s
