Steinhauser Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

Proposing itself as a commendation of wonder, this new exhibition chapter by Jina Park titled “The House of Wonder”, driven by the fascination of the unusual, the fantastic and the chimerical – concomitantly traversing both the sensory and the intelligible hemispheres – sets out along that peremptory yet labyrinthine crossroads that gradually leads us to an understanding of ourselves and all things in the world. Taking on the guise of an extraordinarily phantasmagorical house, adorned with ancient imagery, Alexandrian impressions, and bucolic moments, this exhibition aims to satisfactorily paraphrase tangible and authentic human reality. It juxtaposes past, present, and future, without ever departing from what is usually referred to as naturalistic – that is, that tendency to try and faithfully represent the visible world – thus eschewing visible stylizations and intrepid abstractions.

Starting with the beginnings of Hellenistic philosophy – and more properly with reference to Aristotelian philosophy, according to which “all men by nature tend to knowledge” – this extraordinary human impulse was conceived, ab illo tempore, as the foundation of a thought that tends toward the exhaustive attainment of the purest stage of knowledge. And so it is that the much-stirred wonder, the “first of all passions”, as the French philosopher Descartes put it – even lacking an opposite – in an attempt to open itself to the great hegemony of truth, aims to explain every phenomenon by resorting to natural laws alone…

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