GaHee Park “uses a distinct, theatrical painting style to create insular worlds peppered with sexual intimacy, elaborate dinners and a menagerie of pets and plants”, writes Holly Black in her interview with the New York-based Korean artist for Elephant Issue 43. “I observe things around me and then start to daydream about them and get ideas for images and compositions, fragments of narrative situations,” Park tells Black of her esoteric domestic scenes. “I like it when the space doesn’t really make sense, but it somehow works on the eyes. It’s a trick that all the Modernist painters used, and playing with those references is fun.” Purchase Issue 43 at Elephant Kiosk now to read on.
