Unoccupied
Graphite on paper and mounted on aluminium panel
67.5cm x 100cm
2026

Unoccupied
Graphite on paper
67.5cm x 100cm
2026

Intrusion
Oil on cotton
63cm x 30cm
2026

Borderline
oil, marble dust, flocking powder, graphite, and sewing pins on cotton
160cm x 190cm
2025

Harin Park

I depict furniture and the environment in which it is placed. The furniture is rendered as
empty outlines, while the surrounding space is densely filled with texture. This contrast
reveals a relationship between an emptied subject and an excessive environment.
Graphite is a controllable medium, yet I deliberately avoid making corrections. By
refusing revision despite its possibility, I attempt to maintain a state in which control is
present but continuously deferred. In this process, completion is constantly delayed, not to reach perfection, but rather to avoid bringing the state to an end.
Through the work, I engage with both activity and passivity at once. The words Passion
and Passive both derive from the Latin passio. I reconstruct the domestic space as a
world that once existed in an emotional and passive condition, as an attempt to regain
control and agency within it. The empty structure of the furniture fully exposes its interior, while simultaneously inviting a gaze upon it. In this way, the work holds a double perspective in which a passively exposed state and an actively voyeuristic position overlap.
I measure an unstable world with a ruler and draw lines in pencil to understand it,
reconfiguring it into a coherent order through which I attempt to reclaim agency.
However, the process of reaching this sense of completion is obsessive and labour-
intensive, and in doing so it paradoxically delays and distances the work from
completion. At some point, I inevitably put down the pencil, and I attempt to accept this incomplete form of perfection.