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Continuum presents recent works by artist Park Yong-ho at Gallery Dasun from November 4 to December 3, 2026. The exhibition is the culmination of the labor the artist has quietly accumulated over the past three years. The work begins with a fundamental question: “What lies beyond?” A childhood curiosity about the unknown led him to explore the universe and quantum mechanics, and this soon shifted from a physical expansion to a conceptual one. The artist recognizes that humans are not the center of the world, and that even the world and natural landscapes we perceive are only a fragment created through the interaction of reality and perception. If the nature of the material world cannot be fully described, what we can do is expand the realm of representation. To this end, he creates “indicators beyond perception” through a craft-based approach and a painterly sensibility. At the foundation of the works lies the artist’s intense “bodily labor.” Cutting, shaping, and intersecting metal plates, then coloring and assembling them by hand, demands considerable time and concentration. Square pieces, cut or rounded, are interwoven on the front and back of grid frames. As they conceal and reveal one another, they create layered spatial depth and gradations of shadow. The grids and chance colors symbolize the inside and outside of perception. In the gallery, the works reveal relationships that change constantly as viewers move. Light passes through unfilled cells and casts shadows, and even the gaps and empty spaces between things become part of the work’s network of relationships. This formal and chromatic “unfamiliarity” suspends our habit of defining objects at once, offering a new starting point for perception that lets us look at layers of a world we do not yet know. The title Continuum suggests that the relationships of the world never reach a final state. One part meets another, and the whole formed by that meeting becomes part of an even larger relationship, continuing without end. Through the works of Park Yong-ho, who moves away from a human-centered view toward a new question, “What is inside me?”, visitors are invited to step beyond familiar boundaries of perception and face a new horizon. *This text draws on and excerpts the artist’s notes and the critique “From a Landscape of Being to the Horizon of Perception” by Lee Phil (art historian, art critic, professor at Hongik University).