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Grow with the flow inside Sui Park’s microcosms.
Following her graduate studies, Sui Park moved to NYC to advance her artistic career. What she encountered was an incredibly expansive, expensive, and hyper-competitive city where endless possibilities abound for those who pivot, work hard, and stay committed to the cause. Surrounded by NYC’s many talented practitioners, exhibitions, and artistic communities, she always strived to keep an open mind and take her practice to greater heights.
Sui creates three-dimensional organic forms using industrial yet flexible materials, most notably nylon cable ties. Through a hand-built, accumulative process, she interconnects hundreds if not thousands of individual units into biomorphic structures. Though her materials are synthetic and rigid, Sui’s repetitive technique allows her forms to develop fluid, sentient presence over time. Whether small structures or larger, site-specific installations, the almost cellular qualities of these forms transform the space in question, evoking ethereal vibes and a distinctly contemplative feel.
Back in 2016, the Opéra National de Paris reached out to Sui to request the use of images regarding her works Flow (2015) and SuiTable II (2013) for their 2016 – 2017 season program. She later realized that it was in fact choreographer Crystal Pite, whose work Sui deeply admired, who had shared images of her sculptures with them, explaining how they had inspired her ballet piece, The Season’s Cannon. After its premiere in Paris, the performance was reviewed in The New York Times, making the collaboration all the more meaningful, and reinforcing the potential for Sui’s work to cross disciplines and touch audiences in unexpected ways.
This set the stage for Microcosm, a long-term project that epitomized Sui’s creative growth. Its earliest version was installed outdoors in Riverside Park in 2021 under the title, Summer Vibe. This unique presentation offered Sui the chance to explore how her forms might interact with natural light, elemental movement, and public space. In 2022, she created a smaller indoor installation for Garage Art Center in Queens, whose intimate setting proved ideal for refining the structural relationships within the piece and establishing a cohesive spatial whole. By 2023, Microcosm had expanded via an exhibition at Sapar Contemporary, during which Sui added new components so as to parallel the complex rhythms of NYC, the city that had inspired the project years prior. Microcosm culminated in 2024, when nearly 200 pieces were installed in unison at the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark.
For Sui, witnessing Microcosm’s evolution from a modest outdoor expression to a fully-immersive installation overseas felt like a natural extension of her journey; one blessed by the sheer intensity, diversity, and momentum of living and working in NYC.
