Yena Park delves into her fascination with artificial civilization through installation and digital media works. Her main focus is on the relationship between humans and man-made objects, exploring how these artificial artifacts, originally designed for human convenience, have come to constrain our thoughts and behaviors. Such interest stems from her view of the artificial ecosystem that surrounds us not simply as a tool for human use, but rather as an independent and autonomous world. By reusing various objects from human civilization in her works, she envisions, discovers and reconstructs another world that is dominated by these artificial entities. Recently, she has been working on both online and offline projects that capture her imagination of a new emerging world/organism that feeds on human behavior.
She studied at Seoul National University and is currently working between Glasgow, UK and Seoul, South Korea. Park has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions since 2016. Her first solo show, ‘Movement for a breakaway’, was in 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. In Nov 2021 she had her second solo exhibition, ‘Overlapping World’ in Gimpo, South Korea. She has been working on the ‘Project: Post-Future Ground’ since 2020 and the outbreak of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
