Matisto
Ji-Min Park
Matisto, Mago New Age, 2024, costume jewelry, various objects on corduroy fabric, 30 × 45 cm
Following the vanishing traces of these tiny objects, among endless store aisles, blankets spread over concrete, and antique markets, now removed from beneath their green sky, Matisto begins to assemble his own collection. Like an ancient forager, he stoops amid the noise to pick up a glimmer of light.
Nicolás Cuello
Matisto, La mesa del mago, 2024
Matisto, Obrerx de la Belleza , 2024, pearls, beads, hammer, scythe, threads, needle and thimble, 40 × 16 × 5 cm
Matisto (1987, Salta, Argentina) is a self-taught artist whose practice encompasses collage, objects, photography, video and installation. He participated in the 2nd edition of the Boca de Fuego/Estudios Abiertos residency at the MUNAR art space in La Boca, Buenos Aires (2021-2022). In 2013, he received a grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes to take part in the creative lab run by curator and visual arts teacher Carina Cagnolo in Salta and Jujuy. Between 2011 and 2013 he also attended workshops with Andrea Elías, Guadalupe Miles, Guadalupe Creche and Adriana Bustos, among others.
Ji-Min Park, Infrastructures, 2026, exhibition view, Pony, Montreuil
Ji-Min Park, Untitled, 2026, printed fabric, metal, variable dimensions
Ji-Min Park (South Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris.
A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), her practice explores the complexity and fluidity of intersecting identities, bringing together apparent opposites such as the natural and the artificial, the spiritual and the material, tenderness and violence, fragility and stability, abstraction and figuration. Her work has been presented at Frac Corse, LaVillette, the Salon de Montrouge, the Peace Museum (Seoul), Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Ateliers Mommen (Brussels), Pony (Montreuil) and Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris), among others.
Alongside her visual arts practice, she also works as an actress in film and series.