Eunjung Park is a South Korean-born visual artist who experiments with textiles, collages, and sculptures, engaging the manipulation of digital images and colors inspired by human experience, philosophical inquiries, nature, and abstractions. Influenced by personal narratives and memories, Buddhism, Korean heritage, and family history, her work reflects the artist’s translation of trajectory that turns into a surrealistic projection of surroundings.

Artist Statement

I am a mixed media visual artist who works with textiles, collages, and sculptures. Aside from my concentration in mixed media painting and collage, I take an interdisciplinary approach to video making and installation at the intersection of questioning what it means to my identity. My creative process begins with introspective and existential questions to translate them into visual configurations. It conveys emotions, memory, empathy, and the psychological aspects of human behavior, reflecting on how external and sociocultural factors shape my internal world. 

I question the interaction between internal and external aspects of the self to give a physical form to the evolving self. Incorporating unconscious processes into the development of concepts, I reflect on human experience, intuitive thoughts, customs, and cultures in relation to cultural perceptions and religious motifs. Drawing from my sensory experiences, my interests include an exploration of Korean folk culture, cultural assimilation, identity, language translation (Korean into English), surrealism, and folktales.

One of my recent pieces, Where Are You From, is a wearable sculpture that reflects camouflage from the scope of the cultural assimilation process through symbolic gestures, the experience of adjustment and adaptation through symbolic gestures and performance. Integrating the physical embodiment of abstraction, I examine the possibility of mixing the surface, movement, and interaction between objects and human behavior.