Pale Pink Universe

Sunmin Park

Working through meticulous microscopic observation and the macroscopic vision of a binocular, Sunmin Park (born in Seoul) experiments with what can be perceived and with elements that extend into the blind spots of human senses. Her work spans a variety of media, including photography, video, drawing, spatial installation, publishing, and writing, to investigate the relationship between the binary worlds of civilization and nature, interior and exterior. By carefully examining external factors such as the size and shape of an object, Park has connected her observations to her own inner qualities to construct her artistic world. Her work creates three-dimensional relationships among themselves, resembling a network. The forms generated by these intertwined relationships represent the artist’s practice in seeking her unique form across time and space. Much like the relationship between image and language, which creates ‘attachment’ through ‘separation,’ Park observes objects by modulating and adjusting the distance between herself and the world. Through the camera lens, she examines natural phenomena at a micro level and reflects them at a macroscale, deciphering fragments found in the cracks of unstable urban life. She graduated from the Department of Sculpture at Seoul National University of Fine Arts and later moved to Germany, where she earned the title of Meisterschülerin under the guidance of Rosemary Trockel at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She lives and works in Seoul.