Yoonshin Park

Passing hours, space in between: I am breathing your air

“Passing hours, space in between: I am breathing your air” is an installation series Yooshin has been working on since 2017. The installation features one or more self-breathing pillow(s) positioned on the floor. The pillow is made of sheer handmade paper and equipped with battery operated motor which allows each pillow to simulate the breathing motion.
The installation is about being transient, temporary, and vulnerable and how time and space change individual beings’ experiences. How can the condition of “being transient” be defined? Is it measured completely by the length of time physically spent in an unfamiliar geographic location? If the transient begins to feel settled and comfortable does that result in stability, which can feel curiously unstable?
As a foreign transplant these questions about ‘sense of place’ arose during this project and are in the foreground of my experience, intellect and imagination.


Yoonshin Park:
I have been striving to create an immersive and experiential environment for the viewers to deliver the idea of being fragile, fragmented and visceral. I use my experience in a new environment to question space and its implications in defining one’s identity as the inspiration behind my work.
My work often starts with close observation of mundane activities. Plentiful of gathered observations enable me to create visual dialogues where the ideas distilled through observations manifest in movement, figures, shapes and also in coherent choices of materials. I also maintain my interest in various materials. Finding a new tool or material leads me to work on a completely different type of work by expanding my limit. A lot of my researches are based on works created by artists whose work deals with time, space and repetitive use of material and process.


Bio
Yoonshin Park is working with sculptural papers, artist books, and installation. Her main media concentration is pulp, paper and artist books. Her interest in comprehensive process of paper making and book binding caters her work to encompass various elements woven into complete objects. She received her M.A. and M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was born in Seoul, Korea and currently resides in Chicago, IL.