Sunmin Park captures scenes that are not generally sensed with a binocular vision encompassing a microscopic view and a telescopic view. In this way, she expresses the fragments in the cracks of everyday life. Architecture of Mushroom is a work that combines narrations about architecture by 13 domestic and foreign architects with a video observing mushrooms in Gotjawal, Jeju, with a downward gaze and slow movement for one year in 2017. Mushrooms, fungi that consume nutrients by decomposing organic matter, play an essential role in the ecological cycle in which forests are created and destroyed. On the one hand, mushrooms are life forms with architectural structures of pillars and roofs. Architecture of Mushroom makes us reimagine the relationship between nature and humans by overlapping or contrasting the extinction and creation of mushrooms with various topics in architecture in an era in which materials that have not disappeared due to mass production pose a threat to humankind and nature.
Sunmin Park intends to “measure the whole by examining the parts.” In the forest, she “measures a large forest and imagines a large world with lower and slower movements” than mushrooms. Observing the mushrooms on the ground of the forest through her eyes, we can think of the structure built by nature and the architecture built by humankind and ponder their collapse and extinction. In this way, Architecture of Mushroom shows the poetic insight and sense necessary to penetrate the Anthropocene.
- Artist
- Sunmin Park
- Date
- 2019
- Classifications
- video
- Medium
- 1-channel video(4K), color, sound
- Dimensions
- video 15min 18sec
- Collection No
- 270