June Bum Park’s internationally recognized video works toy with real environments, allowing a faceless being to boast world changing abilities. Through some clever shifts of perception, Park manipulates miniature worlds with some nimble handiwork, transforming the most ordinary environments into extraordinary scenes.In 1 Parking, the short film above, the artist’s interfering hands usher around cars the size of matchboxes and people the size of ants. Like the deus ex machina of valet parking, Park’s almighty hands guide cars into parking spots, maneuvering vehicles into safe positions and holding back traffic to let pedestrians pass. The parking lot becomes the ultimate playpen.
2 Building shows Park’s omniscient hands helping tiny construction workers build a towering project. Predetermined and precise, the manipulations of the artist chauffeur the forces and currents of every day life.
Again, Park reorganizes the human realm of being through his deceptive medium of film in 3 Crossing. His ever-attentive hands direct the flow of traffic and pedestrians through a busy intersection. Preventing accidents and challenging the spontaneous choreography of daily movements, Park’s video works use scale and speed to virtually recontextualize environments, and to demonstrate the power of perception.