Heejin Park
Heejin Park works with any new technology and medium that allows a project to exist in a truthful way. Currently she focuses on moving images, sound, sculpture, repetition, ritual and installation to share private monuments. Outside of that, she recently fell in love with fountain pens.
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There are moments of life that seize you—waves of emotions sweeping through your body as physical sensation—and afterward they remain, remembered as cornerstones to your consciousness. I begin by collecting evidence of those moments: images, notes, footage, objects, and traces that form an archive. From that archive I observe, study, and generate tokens of memorable moments, keeping what stays vivid and discarding what becomes illustrative. I draw, paint, and use other methods to explore unanswerable questions and probe the world I live in, then condense the material into geometric neutral monuments that can bear witness to private history without narrating it. The resulting work is physical proof of private history; a door that leads beyond the past.