Park Seung mo — À propos — Slash Paris

Using a meticulous process, sculptor Seung Mo Park creates large-scale sculptures by wrapping objects in aluminium wires. Park’s earliest works focused on giving a new meaning to objects as masses, by depriving them of their functionality. Also aluminium is a factor that makes the object unusual due to its neutral and impersonal characteristics. This will to make time stand and preserve the body by capturing the present is a process that reveals a certain analogy with the widespread ritual in Ancient Egypt or Classical Greece to cover the face of the deceased with a golden funeral mask.