2021~2023
Advertisement - Light and Shadows merged into the eyes of the baby as she was born and opened her eyes-Fig. 1, 2, 5, 10 & fldjf tiles ** (the event),
2023, reflective tape, 4 images projection on building's exterior walls, online portal site banner ad
2023 Sarubia Exhibition Support Artist
boma pak
Baby
December 1 (Fri) – December 30 (Sat), 2023
Projcct Space Sarubia
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Related Events
Visitors who attend the exhibition on opening day, December 1st, will receive an "invitation" containing a clue to the related performance taking place during the final week of the exhibition.
During the exhibition period (12/1–12/30), the related event "Marble Floor Parts Sale by Yard" will take place. Please inquire at the reception desk for assistance with participation.
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Direction & Text: Moon Soyoung
Coordinator: Park Jiye
|Intern: Lee Junhyung
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Curated by: Project Space SARUBIA
Supported by: Arts Council Korea (ARKO) Visual Arts Creation Studio, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
2023 Sarubia Exhibition Support Artist
boma pak
Baby
December 1 (Fri) – December 30 (Sat), 2023
Projcct Space Sarubia
❋
Related Events
Visitors who attend the exhibition on opening day, December 1st, will receive an "invitation" containing a clue to the related performance taking place during the final week of the exhibition.
During the exhibition period (12/1–12/30), the related event "Marble Floor Parts Sale by Yard" will take place. Please inquire at the reception desk for assistance with participation.
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Direction & Text: Moon Soyoung
Coordinator: Park Jiye
|Intern: Lee Junhyung
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Curated by: Project Space SARUBIA
Supported by: Arts Council Korea (ARKO) Visual Arts Creation Studio, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Blackwater Fountain : Essay on A Halt
2023
frankincense, mint, ylang-ylang oil, alcohol, DPM, purified water, pigment, thread, glass, paint on MDF
dimensions variable
Framer
2023. 6. 17~7. 24
Shower
curated by Shower, Cho Lee Sop
Blackwater of 2011 from Bremen for 1/6 tables organized by a curator from Vienne in Seoul
2023
plastic container, wine, blue and green food colorings
30 portions
Wetting Your Whitles
May 11th 2023, 5 to 7 pm
Art Sonje Center, Seoul
Cho Beom-Seok
Jaiwon Choi
Boma Pak
Rondi Park
Seohyun Sue Park
Sun Woo & Muyeong Kim
Curated by Severin Dünser
The Reality of The Green
2023
paint on flower, scent, sponge, bead, bell, thread, still, replacement manual
dimensions variable
#5c755a(The Green)
2023
digital image
DMZ EXHIBITION: CHECK POINT
2023. 8.31 - 11.5
Paju, South Korea
curated by Sun Jung Kim
Dead Lilies' Camouflage for Bom Boniere NewYork of: #ece8de, #e8dfca, #5d9693, #000000
(by Mother of Fake Flowers)
2023
paint on flower, digital print, color-pencil on paper, plastic, nail, color-pencil on wall
demensions variable
Heartdeep
2023. 8. 15 - 9. 14
(Former) Bom Baniere Newyork
curated by Sangyeop Rhii
A Day as a Disappearance
May 2 – May 7, 2023
Rasun Library
Open 24 hours on Saturday, May 6th.
curated by Rasun Library(Hanbum Lee)
Sophie Etulips Xylang Co.,’s Executives Material Suite,
2023, aluminum, plastic, adhesive silver foil sheet on paper, paint on plaster board, carpet, table, stool, mirror film, tape, hot-melt adhesive glue, motor, speaker, existing works*, dimensions variable* existing works incorporated in Sophie Etulips Xyalng Co.,’s Executives Material Suite (all by Boma Pak):
Another Sun Shadow Selfie, 2023, print on paper, dimensions variable; How Lepidoptera teaches us so gently about the metaphor of rebirth, flapping wings and the duplicated eyes in them, 2021, acrylic on silk, polyester, beads, paper clay, wire, dimensions variable; Adhesive Plastic Paper of Sophie Etulips Xylang Co.,’s Marble, Beige to Blue Painting, 2021/2023, rolled adhesive sheet, digital print dimensions variable; Opera: Sky Blue Canon Infinitus, 2023, sound, 19min. 47sec.; To bring the marble column of the lobby here-stainless version, 2020, stainless, 220ⅹ1090mm; Their Marble Beige to Blue Series, 2020, oil on plastic paper, 788ⅹ1090mm; Parcel, The Company has sent: Cigarette Butts, 2020, plaster, lipstick, stamp, dimensions variable; Obejct: Skies, Fallen Wings, Tear Drops and The Things that never be back, 2023, ribbon, tie, feather, metal foil paper, tag, plastic tie, dust, part of a bolt, trash, glass, ceramic, water, ink, blue roses, soap roses, hair pin, fake ice, artificial chrysanthemum, silver bell, thread, print on paper, rubber band, wire, spangle, dimensions variable; Scent: Plastic Sponge Blue Roses of 20100813 now stand for the Sky, 2023 parfum, leaflet, dimensions variable.
Script: Ritual of Matter of Sophie Etulips Xylang Co.,’s Executives at Leeum, 2023, text.
Opera: Sky Blue Canon Infinitus, 2023, performance (28, 29th of July, at the entrance railings to the Leeum Museum of Art and at the lobby of the museum after closing
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Work of Accident: S-E-X-CO.COM Material Suite at Leeum
2023
photography
Boma Pak
Ritual of Matter (at Leeum)
25 July - 24 December 2023
Leeum Museum of Art
Leeum Museum of Art presents Ritual of Matter, a work by Boma Pak (b. 1988). Spanning various media and multiple artistic identities, Pak navigates and advocates for vulnerability of material, as well as marginalized and/or feminine beings. For this project, Pak transforms the lobby’s ROOM into a reception area of a fictitious company Sophie Etulips Xylang Co.,
Here, large glass facades and marble, frequently used in skyscrapers of large corporations, are replaced with light and frivolous materials while portraits of the executives are mere silhouettes, unnamed and faceless. The ritual of matter led by sporadic array of objects, faint vibration across the wall, a fading scent and ambiguous sounds mourns repressed beings and celebrates the fullness of ephemerality. This ritual with a twist undermines the society’s value system and challenges ocularcentrism and devotion to permanence that lies underneath the institutional practices.
Organized by Leeum Museum of Art
Curated by Jiwon Yu (Curator, Leeum Museum of Art)
Graphic design by Lee Kyoung Min
Architecture by Post Standards
Lighting design by KimJoo Seulki
Installation assistance by Cho Leesop
Special thanks to Park Yubin Chris Cho
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Performance by Boma Pak
Opera: Sky Blue Canon Infinitus
28 (Fri), 29 (Sat) July, 2023
18:30-19:30
Leeum Museum of Art Lobby
Boma Pak’s Ritual of Matter stages a reception area of a fictitious company Sophie Etulips Xylang Co., at the lobby’s ROOM, Leeum Museum of Art. Written and directed by Pak, Opera: Sky Blue Canon Infinitus announces the departure of the “ritual of matter” and extends the celebration of the material presence into the lobby. The performance saturates the lobby with the passion mediated by the performers, sounds that mourn repressed beings, and the presence of the museum caretakers, turning the space into a stage where the perpetual and ephemeral switch places, interweave, and reconcile.
Visitors are encouraged to read the script written by Pak before the performance. The script, which will be released on the opening of Ritual of Matter, unfolds a narrative that spans the conception and installation of the exhibition, the performance, and the project’s termination. We invite you to picture the sky, the museum, and the beings in between while reading the script, which operates as a prototype of what will take place, like a novel on which movies are potentially based.
Registration: https://www.leeum.org/program/lecture_view.asp?proid=850
(walk-in available on a rolling basis)
Performers
Park Minho Cha Igyeong Hwang Sookyeong
Featuring
Hyosoon Lee Youngja Han Minjung Kim Jayoung Shin Yaerin Yang
Vocal
Jeongyoon Kim Jaewon Yoon Chowon Lee
Composition
Miyeon Kwon
Logo Music
Minhwi Lee
Film
Cho Beom-Seok (Director) Lee Won-Seok (Director of Photography) Yoon Dong-Jun Kim Young Sok Jung Jae-Min (Camera Operators)
Producer
Jiwon Yu (Curator, Leeum Museum of Art)
Graphic Design
Kyungmin Lee (Designer, Leeum Museum of Art)
The Soul of Wedding: About Eternity
2023, mixed media (sound, fragrance,paint on MDF, charcoal, pencil, drawingon wall, plaster, plaster clay, butter,ink, paint, paper clay, paper, text, bead, flower, fake flower, sculpture, color spray, glass, steel, roasted cauliflower, ceramic, fabric, water and et cetera),
dimensions variable.
The wedding was once delayed
2023, stereo, 24 min. 8 sec.
Ivory Polish (Bridal Bouquet): When Matter Volatilizes into Souls
2023, essential oils, ethanol, glass, fiber stick, aluminium, dimensions variable. (Collaboration: Maatter)
or A Virgin
2023, paint on MDF, 170 × 30 × 610 cm
Living in Joy
March 28– June 25, 2023
Rondi Park, Boma Pak, Hannah Woo
Curated by Chus Martinez
Organized by
Art Sonje Center
Supported by
Arts Council Korea
Venue
The Ground, Art Sonje Center
Rebercca Son’s Funeral Portraits
2021
digital print, aluminum, text, dimensions variable (Performed in fldjf material suite : Portrait of Pleasure in Suffering, 2021, fldjf material suite for s.e.x.co.,, event(approx. 7hours on a rooftop), SNS live-streaming from social media)
The life in 4 Scenes (but else more) of Rebercca Son, Scene 1~4
2022, charcoal, pencil and beads on wall, charcoal powder on floor, dimensions variable
Mycelia Core, Rebercca Son, Paul & Steve
2022. 11. 12 ~ 12. 1
SUCHI
Curated by Cho Lee Sop
Boma Pak : Mercy : Paintings and Matters 19XX-2022
2022. 8. 21-9. 10
YPC SPACE, Seoul, Korea.
Curated by Jiwon Yu
In collaboration with YPC SPACE
Boma Pak - Mercy : Paintings and Matters 19XX-2022 at YPC Space (Seoul, Korea) is the artist's solo exhibition that introduces for the first time her painting series through a new artistic identity, 'Boma Pak.' 'Boma Pak', whose exact year of activity is unknown, is presumed to be a female Asian artist, presents a group of monochromic color paintings that verifies in repetition. This line of work came from a realization that the sky the artist used to capture in digital image and medium are not inherently different from the oil paintings’ planes that replicate the digital images. This exhibition suggests a vision for a reconciliation between the spirit (immaterial) and material. The picture planes with line and color, pattern and glittery materials leap forward to the field where Moment/ Eternity, Reality/ Emotion and Original/ Imitation merge.
사라지는 하루 a day as a disappearance
2022
published by Rasun Press
A Day as a Disappearance begins its story with the cover itself. A cup standing on a table tips over for no discernible reason, and the water it held spills out. In the mysterious instant when light glints across the surface of a drop of water, we enter the world inside that droplet. Inside it, strange, curious, and captivating forms drift about, drawing near to us and then receding again. This book begins in the dimness of dawn, moves through the bright white of midday, and continues on into the deep darkness of midnight — holding within it the span of a single day, and repeating it.
A Day as a Disappearance is a story about forms that are born and vanish within a single day — unknown beings. There are strange beings that do not take familiar shapes like the circle, the triangle, or the square — beings that are ceaselessly born and disappear, living out their own lives independent of us. This book invites us to welcome such beings, and to imagine ways of living alongside them.
This exhibition, prepared to mark the opening of Rasun Library, reconstructs A Day as a Disappearance in the form of an exhibition. The forms once bound within the temporality of the book's space now settle again within the exhibition space, lingering for a moment within the flow of time in the world we inhabit.
Rasun Library is a place where technical reproductions dwell for a while. Through objects caught in a spiral motion, it imagines what lies outside of reality.
Touched Series: In the shape of flower, in the shpae of petal& leaf and in the shape of the unknown igonored
2021
plasticine
dimentions variable
Touched Series: Green shades in quarter
2021
oil on paper (divided in quarters)
each 393x545mm
(quatre divided, each randomly cumpled)
Living Relation
WTM decoration & boma x Boma
Haseullin Jeong
2021.10.8. 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30
Namsan Dulegil
Curated by Sangyeop Rhii
Sophie Etulips Xylang Co.,: s-e-x-co.com
2021.12.27. OPEN
a relevant event)
fldjf material suite: Portrait of Pleasure in Suffering — 임원진 물질 스위트 조립 촬영 (Assembly Shoot of the Executive Board's Material Suite)
2021.10.24 (Sun), 12pm–6pm
Nearby location where the rooftop of Euljiro 103 can be viewed (opposite hotel lobby, 4F). Instagram @fldjfstudio story.
The website viewing runtime is approximately 30 minutes. Desktop and headphone use is recommended.
Boma Pak's solo exhibition, Sophie Etulips Xylang Co., consolidates the multiple identities the artist has unfolded since 2013 into a fictional company called Sophie Etulips Xylang Co., unfolding variable materials, non-linear narratives, and feminine language and sensibility — all things excluded by binary thinking and the values that capitalism prioritizes. Through identities such as fldjf studio, WTM deco & boma, and dancer qhak, Boma Pak has, until now, hinted at some company operating behind the scenes — temporarily occupying high-rise buildings that condense the weight of massive capital, and producing sculptures, objects, fragrances, sounds, and ornaments. Among the traces of events that have given bodies to beings uncaptured by prescriptive language and amplified vibrations of sensation, Sophie Etulips Xylang Co., now launches.
Sophie Etulips Xylang Co., unveils its official website. This web presentation, which introduces the company progressively in a set sequence, unfolds the logic of an inverted world across a total of eleven menus — through diverse media including photography, digital images, and sound — spanning an ironic founding myth and corporate history, techniques of handling light, and a fragmented body and shadow-haunted portrait of the company's owner and executive board. This company, rather than reigning over and controlling material, learns from its flow; the lowest-ranking staff member who directly touches every corner of the building rises instead to become the true owner of the company, and the combination of material fragments itself constitutes the substance of the executive board. Built not on solid concrete floors and pillars but on transparent, fragmented images, this company is absent in the sense that it lacks a profit structure and a physical building — yet the excessive spectrum of sensation testifies that it undeniably exists. In doing so, it fractures the hierarchy between what distrustful reason claims to be "real" and dismisses as "fake," between what is recognized as having exchange value in the market economy and what is not — allowing us, at last, to encounter the material excluded by dominant values. — Jiwon Yu
Planning & Production Agency: fldjf studio
Co-planning, Editing: Jiwon Yu
Sound: Bela
Arrangement: Kwon Miyeon
Melody: meladies qhak
Executive Board Material Suite Photography: Cho Hyunseol
Logo Music: Lee Minhw
Voices: Juan Kurtzman, Andree Korpys, Paula Hurtado Otero, Victoria Gentsch, Nicky Xin
Dancer: becky
Web Development & Design: YinYang
Lobby Facade: "Girls in Quarantine" (Website, 2020. Planning: Jiwon Yu, Website Design: Shin Ina)
Text: Jiwon Yu, Lee Yeonsook (Rita), Lee Hanbeom
Supported by: Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Sponsor of Light: Sophie Etulips Xyla
Please, come over and play with a butterfly if you dare…
2021
(Room 402, Seoul.), script, sound made from remaining things, voice, melody, medium (Perform Collection System), screening, live streaming, different-space same-time output sound performance, QR code, PCS, Online.
Medium Reflection Time: 2021.12.11 (Sat), 4:30–6:00 pm GMT
Perform Collection System
2021.12.10 – 12.14
Perform Collection System (PCS)
Overall Direction: Somi Lee
Research: Kwon Taehyun, Kim Jiyul, Maeng Nahyun, Yong Seonmi, Lee Minju, Lee Boreum, Somi Lee, Choi Soyeon
Web Coordination: Lee Boreum
Technician: Ahn Seongseok
Web Development: dearstep
Graphic Design: Choi Jaehoon
Organized by: Perform
Director: Kim Woonghyun
Cooperative Founding Committee, Accounting: Cho Euiju
In Cooperation with: Elephant Space
This project was produced with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Arts Council Korea's "2021 Online Media Arts Activity Support Program.
