sojin park
Hearts in Motion
Cross the borders between chaotic worlds with wandering artist, Sojin Park.
sojin park
Hearts in Motion
Cross the borders between chaotic worlds with wandering artist, Sojin Park.
Following her relocation to Germany, Sojin Park studied at ESMOD Berlin and went on to launch her own art and fashion label known as Assembled Half.
For Sojin, threads are tools that connect us to and break down the gap between reality and the invisible world. While paint may serve to intertwine and permeate lines, threads pass seamlessly between them and tear apart the gaps in between. In close-up, threads entangle across the canvas, yet from afar, they appear to come together miraculously as a whole. In this sense, Sojin’s quirky, handcrafted mixed-media pieces are woven with the beauty of synthesis, as well as the holistic essence of Korean “Bibim” or mixed culture.
Spending prolonged periods in different regions and cultures, Sojin often felt as though she was “constantly coming full circle.” Emerging from the periphery, she gradually works her way in, only to pivot and move from the inside-out once more. Rather than adhere to predefined roles, accept painful demands, or seek solace in ideologies and empty social ties, Sojin remains a “heart in motion,” forever crossing borders and seemingly stranded like a ghost between chaotic worlds.
In her “Something Between, to be Between, if it’s Between” series, Sojin’s subjects manifest as “monsters of division and wandering prophets.” They are those destined to lacerate openings between worlds, spaces for the incompatible ones who float, blend, and protrude in and out against the grain. Although they may never settle down or find stability by conventional standards, they will always be extraordinary characters with multiple identities, bravely forging cracks and visualizing in plain sight the human dilemmas of our time.
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Discover more of Sojin’s works in Issue 4 of our magazine!
