FULL MOON WISH: 박주연

This solo exhibition by Jooyeon Park focuses on works that quote “Waiting for Godot,” Samuel Beckett’s Theater of the Absurd. The exhibition title, ‘Full Moon Wish’, is also the title of Jooyeon Park’s installation, which reinterprets the moon that appears in the stage background of this play. During the exhibition, She invited BH Production, a group of five Irish artists, to perform Waiting for Godot.

 

On one wall of the exhibition hall, where there is a full moon, drawings made with a mixture of soap bubbles and ink are displayed. Soap bubble drawings are made up of traces of soap bubbles blown by delicately controlling breathing and concentration and then dropped on paper. This contains her ongoing interest in the visible and the invisible, hope and futility, finiteness and infinity, short time and memory, and blank space and compassion.

 

On the other wall of the exhibition hall, there are works in which images of manuscripts were screen-printed and she wrote by hand on them. 〈Lucky〉, which was created directly on the wall, is the transcription of the lines of the character 'Lucky' in 〈Waiting for Godot〉. This part is Lucky's only line in the play. The line, which proceeds at a rapid pace for a long time, at first glance gives the feeling of listening to a speech or lecture by an intelligent and knowledgeable person, but in reality, it is just a combination of incomprehensible and absurd words. 

Lucky's lines reflect the position of the theater of the absurd, which holds that our lives are fundamentally absurd and that language is so unsuited to being a complete means of communication that humans' only refuge is in laughter. At the same time, Even though Jooyeon Park feels that language is the finiteness, futility, and one-time, She shows her hope for ‘something’ that she wants to believe will be communicated through the space between the seemingly meaningless rhymes.