Small eats Big eats Small

Small eats big eats small, 2022, Single channel video, 3840 x 2160, color, 06:59

Para Site Hongkong, 2021 Silver Jubilee Auction

Photo by Felix Wong

Small eats big eats small, 2022, Single channel video, 3840 x 2160, color, 06:59

Working through the minute and detailed observation of microscopes and macroscopic vision of binoculars, Sunmin Park experiments with those that are intercepted and things that extend within the blind area of human senses. In particular, Park minutely observes natural phenomena, capturing what is usually overlooked by employing photography and video. The work is a video component of an experimentation process in which the movement of ambient water droplets freezing and melting was shot in a long take, and the video is edited to juxtapose images of water droplets dripping downward, combining to form bigger droplets, and droplets rising upwards, dividing into smaller droplets. When one immerses oneself in the movement of the small droplets, they appear not as water droplets but as living faces both big and small. They rise and fall in a mutual relationship, and their appearance conjures up visions of a gravity that eats everything in its path and a world without hierarchy. Park studied sculpture at Seoul National University, South Korea. Park achieved a Meister Schüler degree under Prof. Rosemarie Trockel at Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Park has participated in exhibitions at MUSE Museum of Science, Trento (2021); Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art (2019); and Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin (2019). Her work has also been screened internationally.