GaHee Park at Perrotin Paris: Painting the Beauty of Unease
At Perrotin Paris, GaHee Park invites viewers into a world that feels at once elegant, intimate, and quietly unsettling. Her exhibition unfolds like a series of dreamlike interiors and still lifes scenes that seem familiar at first glance, yet subtly slip out of place the longer you linger.
Park’s paintings are instantly recognisable for their flattened perspectives, lush colours, and almost childlike precision. Tables tilt, rooms feel too shallow, and figures appear suspended in moments that resist resolution. Flowers, fruit, mirrors, and bodies coexist in compositions that flirt with romance while gently undermining it. Nothing is overtly dramatic, yet everything hums with tension.
Often compared to Henri Rousseau for her naïve style, Park moves far beyond nostalgia. Her work feels contemporary in its emotional intelligence exploring desire, intimacy, and the fragility of private moments. A kiss may feel staged, a still life oddly voyeuristic. The paintings ask us to question what we are seeing, and why it feels slightly off.
Set within Perrotin’s Paris space, the exhibition resonates with the rhythm of the city itself: refined, seductive, and layered with contradiction. Park’s visual language bridges art history and modern psychology, blending classical genres with a distinctly personal sensibility.
For lifestyle readers, GaHee Park’s work offers more than aesthetic pleasure. It captures a mood one that mirrors modern relationships and inner lives, where beauty and discomfort often coexist. Her paintings remind us that elegance does not have to be comfortable, and that the most compelling images are often those that linger in ambiguity.
This is painting that whispers rather than shouts and leaves a lasting impression long after you step back onto the Parisian street.
