ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL presents Avant-Garde Does Not Surrender, a solo exhibition by Insane PARK (b. 1980, Korea), on view from October 16 (Thu) to December 6 (Sat), 2025. PARK has long explored the realm of media and images, consistently creating works that reveal the limitations of conventional visual systems and the modes of perception we often take for granted. By analyzing and deconstructing repeatedly circulated and fixed images, he presents works that candidly expose both the essence and limitations of human cognition and thought as mediated through the act of “seeing.” Working fluidly across video, installation, painting, and photography, his practice extends beyond formal experimentation to subversively uncover the political and cultural structures that shape contemporary society.

In this exhibition, PARK reawakens the avant-garde attitude through the perspective of vandalism. While vandalism may is a self-contradictory and rebellious act, it is also a movement that negates existing systems and generates new perspectives and discourses. Through works in the form of fictitious documentaries created with digital technology, motion graphics, and live-streaming formats reminiscent of social media, PARK continues his experiments dismantling the authority and safeguards of institutional art. For PARK, graffiti layered onto decaying buildings and messages scattered across artworks are not simply acts of destruction, but gestures of resistance against authority and oppression. He regards acts of scribbling and defacement as processes of redefinition, disrupting existing orders and hierarchies while simultaneously infusing them with new meaning. Presented on the basement floor of ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, this exhibition questions the possibilities of resistance through art, exploring the ambivalent forces of destruction and creation, authority and defiance that emerge through vandalism.

Venue
ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, 85 Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea 03058, B1F

Artist
Insane PARK

Exhibition Dates
October 10 – December 6, 2025

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday | 11 AM – 6 PM

Website
https://www.arariogallery.com

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/arariogallery_official/

Contact
info@arariogallery.com 

About Artist

Insane PARK has held solo exhibitions at various institutions including ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2020; 2014; 2011), ARARIO MUSEUM DONGMUN MOTEL II (Jeju, Korea, 2019), M17 (Paju, Korea, 2017), Art Project CZ (Shanghai, China, 2015), and Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, 2012). He also participated in group exhibitions at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Ansan, Korea), Suwon Museum of Art (Suwon, Korea), Gyeongnam Art Museum (Changwon, Korea), NamJune Paik Art Center (Yongin, Korea), Savina Museum (Seoul, Korea), Kyonggi University Sosung Museum (Suwon, Korea), Alternative Space Loop (Seoul, Korea), Art Space Boan 1942 (Seoul, Korea), and more. He participated in a residency at Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture (Ratchaburi, Thailand) in 2024, Studio M17 (Paju, Korea) from 2016 to 2017, Akiyoshidai International Art Village (Yamaguchi, Japan) in 2016, Gyeonggi Creation Center (Ansan, Korea) from 2015 to 2016, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, Korea) from 2011 to 2013, and won Grand Prize of The 2nd ETRO Art Prize in 2013.

(Text and images courtesy of ARARIO GALLERY)