The exhibition also challenges the boundaries of the body.
In PARK Wunggyu’s New Body (2026), internal organs, fur, and arthropod legs become entangled within a single body. It is a strange hybrid form in which the boundaries between human and nonhuman, as well as male and female, disappear. The work reinterprets Gusangdo (九相圖), a Buddhist painting tradition depicting the nine stages of the body’s decomposition after death, transforming it into a contemporary vision of the body.
On the folding screens flanking the work, strange creatures made of hair appear alongside slugs. Unfamiliar and unsettling bodies occupy the forms of hanging scrolls and folding screens, traditionally used to convey ritual meaning and wishes for blessings.
21 September 2026
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