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Bona Park in Delfina Foundation residency

Bona Park, along with Young In Hong, is commencing a residency at Delfina Foundation, with support from Arts Council England:

Bona Park residency

6 January – 28 February 2015
Delfina Foundation | 29-31 Catherine Place | London SW1E 6DY | delfinafoundation.com

Bona Park: the tap 1, 2014
Bona Park: ‘the tap 1’, 2014, Exhibition guides performance wearing tap dance shoes written ‘I tell what you believe’ throughout the exhibition, Art Spectrum 2014, Leeum Museum, Seoul

Bona Park is in residence as part of Delfina Foundation’s thematic programme Performance as Process.

Bona Park’s works and projects question social systems, including art, by uncovering the various structures and labors therein. By juxtaposing art with social conditions her practice creates awkward situations that confuse and upend the boundary between art and daily life, often appropriating art historical references that switch into new social and environmental contexts. She plays with these concerns as a game with its own rules, which then turns back on itself. This ‘game like’ characteristic produces a performativity where spectators can actively involve themselves in the works, imposing differing outcomes and points of view. This process results in her practice stationed between the reality outside of the gallery and art inside the gallery.

Since receiving her MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, London, in 2008, Bona has participated in various international projects and residency programs including UNIDEE, Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy, 2009), Gyeonggi Creation Center, (Korea, 2010), Pingpong Art Space (Taiwan, 2011), Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon (Korea, 2012), and Twilight Project (Taiwan, 2013).

Recent exhibitions include Art Spectrum, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art (Korea), Kissing Complexity, Aleph Project, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, (Korea), Learning Machine, opening performance, Nam Jun Paik Museum (Korea), The Ungovernables, The 2012 New Museum Triennial, New Museum (New York), Live Ammo, Museum of Contemporary Art (Taiwan), and Conceal from your eye, Bastero Kulturgunea, (Spain).

In 2013, Bona Park was awarded the Sindoh Artist Support Program, and recently presented a solo project for the gallery in Sindoh, Seoul, 2015.

Bona lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.

With support from Arts Council England

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