Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York presents South Korean artist Wonmin Park's solo show, Unding: Restoration of Existence.
The title of the exhibition is taken from the concept of Unding, meaning ‘unthing’ or ‘non-thing’, coined by German-Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han. Han defines Undinge as objective absences, insubstantial non- objects that are displacing real world objects through the increasing ubiquity of a digital reality.
In this exhibition, Wonmin’s artworks both exemplify and respond to Han’s theories through material negatives and opposites, displayed through his twin series Plain Cuts Stone and Steel and Plain Cuts Remediated. Wonmin’s Stone and Steel pieces, composed of volcanic rock and industrial steel, are positioned as ‘objects’, balanced against the colored resin and glass ‘non-objects’ of his Remediated artworks.