Sunmin Park

Place: Seoul

Born: 1971

Biography:

Working through the minute and detailed observation of microscopes and macroscopic vision of binoculars, Sunmin Park experiments with those that are intercepted and things that extend within the blind area of human senses. Her work encompasses a variety of media, including photography, video, drawing, spatial installation, publishing, and writing, to question the relationship between the binary worlds of civilization and nature, inside and outside. While keenly examining the external factors such as the dimension and shape of an object, Park has linked her observations to her own internal qualities to build up her art world. Her works create web-like 3-dimensional relationships among them. The forms that are created by these networks of relations are representative of the artist’s process of artistic practice to search for her own unique form in time and space. Like the relation between image and language of creating ‘attachment’ through ‘separation,’ she gazes at objects while modulating and changing the distance between herself and the world. She observes natural phenomena through the lens of a camera at a micro level and mirrors them at a macro level to decipher the fragments found in the cracks of unstable life in the city. She graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Seoul National University of Fine Arts and moved to Germany, where she received a Meiterschuler under the guidance of Rosemary Trockel at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and she is living and working in Seoul.