Earl Park

‘The show must go on’ is an overseas exchange program that Total Museum of Art has been running since 2012. It was designed, under this corona pandemic situation where personal exchanges in the art world have become difficult, with the intent to introduce artists’ works by sending bags (cases) containing their portfolios and small-scale works to overseas curators. The curators keep the bags for a month before they send them back, exhibiting, taking pictures of or reviewing them.
The ‘Halo Box’ started with an idea of ‘a bag containing light’ connecting two somewhat heterogeneous images. A circular lighting as materialized light replaces the concept of light in a halo in an old hatbox for travel. The old hatbox is expected to be evocative of traveling different eras. For example, the halo in a hatbox in the Rococo era might have been used with a glamorous and exaggerated wig or dress to stand out human beings. It is exciting to imagine how the metaphor of light could be accepted and perceived by people when the bag is opened in the changing backgrounds traveling through times and cultures.

Interview Video
Project Page: https://www.theshowmustgoon.co.kr/earlpark

Dimensions: 61 × 45.7 × 40.7 cm (open)
Materials: lighting equipment, velvet fabric, cotton, suitcase

Credits
Curator: Young-ri Lee (IAP, Korea), Nathalie Boseul Shin(Total Museum, Korea), Shazeb Shaikh (India)
Coodinator : Sujin Han
Assist : Yedam Koo
Organizer : Incheon Art Platform, Total Museum

Exhibitions
Box Politics & its Poetry, Sunaparanta Goa Centre For The Arts, Goa, IN (2021.04.07 ~ 06.05)
The Show Must Go On, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, KR (2020.11.17 ~ 12.02)