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Sora Park imagines future scenarios, personas, products, and life forms that may emerge if current social issues intensify, and visualises these speculations through a range of media including sculptural models, video, installation, and interactive sculpture. Through sculptural devices and structures that invite audience engagement, she seeks to translate speculative visions of the future into present, embodied experiences.
Park’s practice particularly interrogates how human beings are commodified under late capitalism and neoliberal systems, and how bodies and consciousness are objectified and quantified through these processes. She is interested in cultural phenomena in which the body is perceived as a site of improvement and development within neoliberal self-help culture, driven by the logics of productivity and performance. Her recent works engage with subjects such as “virtual humans,” “self-development influencers,” and “game items,” exploring how desires for bodily enhancement are projected onto fictional personas and images within online platform environments, circulated through these platforms, and ultimately transformed into capital through algorithmic cycles of selection and exclusion.
Selected as one of the artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2021, Park has since been actively exhibiting her work both domestically and internationally. Her major solo exhibitions include Connect–Disconnect–Reconnect (Daegu Art Factory, 2021) and Soft Prologue (523KunstDoc, 2022). She has also participated in group exhibitions at various institutions and galleries, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), the Royal Academy of Arts (London), South London Gallery (London), and Kim HeeSoo Art Center (Seoul). She is currently a resident artist at Art Space Geumcheon and also works as a co-director of the interdisciplinary art collective Earth-topia.
Park’s practice particularly interrogates how human beings are commodified under late capitalism and neoliberal systems, and how bodies and consciousness are objectified and quantified through these processes. She is interested in cultural phenomena in which the body is perceived as a site of improvement and development within neoliberal self-help culture, driven by the logics of productivity and performance. Her recent works engage with subjects such as “virtual humans,” “self-development influencers,” and “game items,” exploring how desires for bodily enhancement are projected onto fictional personas and images within online platform environments, circulated through these platforms, and ultimately transformed into capital through algorithmic cycles of selection and exclusion.
Selected as one of the artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2021, Park has since been actively exhibiting her work both domestically and internationally. Her major solo exhibitions include Connect–Disconnect–Reconnect (Daegu Art Factory, 2021) and Soft Prologue (523KunstDoc, 2022). She has also participated in group exhibitions at various institutions and galleries, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), the Royal Academy of Arts (London), South London Gallery (London), and Kim HeeSoo Art Center (Seoul). She is currently a resident artist at Art Space Geumcheon and also works as a co-director of the interdisciplinary art collective Earth-topia.