Post Vandalism, 2022, Single-channel video, color, sound, 4 min. 17 sec., Ed. 1/6, A.P. 2

Insane PARK, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL

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Post Vandalism is a video work that virtually stages the interior and exterior of the Seoul Museum of Art (SEMA) Nam-Seoul Annex as if they were covered in red spray-paint graffiti, visualizing resistance against institutional art and structures of power. The artist installs a fictional banner reading “Insanepark solo exhibition vandalism” and transforms “artist fee” into “artist pee,” exposing contradictions within the art system through acts of linguistic subversion. Slogans such as “All art is propaganda” and “Burn down the museum” violently articulate the frustration and distrust contemporary artists feel toward institutional authority, questioning both the social function and the structural limits of art. Set against the backdrop of an illegally occupied museum, the work examines how gestures of resistance can emerge from within the very system they critique. Insane PARK’s practice focuses on the immateriality and circulation inherent to digital art. The artist’s videos exist not as collectible objects but as files that can be infinitely replicated and transmitted. This immaterial condition frees the artwork from traditional notions of ownership, transforming circulation itself into a condition of art. By foregrounding the instantaneous reproduction and consumption of digital images, Insane PARK reveals how institutional authority and systems of artistic value are dismantled in the process. The work ultimately poses a fundamental question: what does it mean for an artwork to exist and circulate in the digital age?
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