Sui Park is a New York-based artist born in Seoul, Korea. She creates 3-dimensional and flexible organic forms in biomorphic shapes. They seem static yet dynamic, mystical, and sometimes even illusionary. Through her forms and shapes, Park attempts to recreate and encapsulate dynamic characteristics of our evolving lives. While her forms resemble transitions and transformations of nature, they also express and capture subtle but continuous changes in our emotions, sentiments, memories, and expectations.

The installation Microcosm consists entirely of cable ties. She weaves and connects cable ties to build traces of subtle changes, recreating them into sculptural organic forms. Cable ties are one of those materials that are supposedly non-durable, inexpensive, disposable, and an easily consumed substitute. But Park’s sculptures show the materials can be represented and recreated in a distinct way with meanings attached.

Park repurposes ready-made mass-produced industrial materials and transforms them into organic ambience. The resulting transformation opens discussions about how we continuously connect, evolve, and shape up to be an individual character, group, and society. How we connect with each other and with the things that surround us. Much like the Nouveau Realist artists when they engaged in practices that aligned with the principles of repurposing, reusing, and transforming materials from everyday life into art.

Sui Park’s knowledge of the line and the string is reminiscent of that of net weavers and weavers. She experiments to find out everything her line can offer. Her nimble fingers bind and bend to create a weave that is architectural enough to be self-supporting. In that way, she challenges our perception of what a line can do, what a drawing is, and how close it can be to being a sculpture or an installation, much like the Italian artist Piero Manzoni, when he made the work Linea Lunga 7200 metri in Herning in 1960.