Sunyoung Park

South Korea

Sunyoung Park (b. 1982) is an artist whose practice centers on photosculpture, a hybrid form that combines photography and sculpture. Her work explores how photographic images can be expanded beyond two-dimensional representation into spatial and tactile experiences. In her approach, photosculpture becomes a way to engage the physicality of images—through folding, layering, and shaping materials into sculptural forms that retain traces of photographic memory. 

Park’s ongoing research includes a conceptual study of photosculpture, which is set to be published in Culture & History Digital Journal (A&HCI, SSCI-indexed), as well as analytical work on the medium from both inter- andpost-disciplinary perspectives. 

She has participated in a range of art projects supported by international and national institutions, both governmental and independent. These include projects hosted or funded by Gudskul Ecosystem(Indonesia, 2024), Xi’an Art Museum (China, 2023), University of Paris 8 Saint-Denis (France, 2019), and the Gyeonggi Art Council (South Korea, 2018), among others. 

Territory of Both Disorientation and Relocation

Solo Exhibition - 21 - 27 August, 2025
REDBASE Foundation Indonesia


Territory of Both Disorientation and Relocation by Sunyoung Park traces the enduring presence of Creole architecture—not merely as a residue of colonial hybridity, but as a material witness to disorientation, displacement, and belonging. Centered on the humble redbrick fragment, each work reveals a palimpsest of migration, history, and memory. Often overlooked in their everydayness, red bricks become vessels of both rupture and reformation—evidence of lives folded, layered, and reframed across time and territory.  Park’s connection to redbrick emerged through years of traveling and working across various regions in Asia. In unfamiliar and fragmented places, redbrick appeared repeatedly—marking neighborhoods, ruins, and vernacular spaces shaped by colonial legacies and local cultural translations. For Park, these encounters became moments of recognition, anchoring her amid experiences of disorientation and detachment.   Here, photography is not a medium of representation, but a tactile process of transformation. By folding, cracking, and layering photographic prints into sculptural configurations, Park brings memory-images and material into tension. Her photosculptures evoke how place is felt—through texture, weight, and temporal-spatial dissonance. The redbrick becomes more than a historical remnant; it is Creole in nature: hybrid, uncertain, and transformative.  Through the interplay of surface, texture, and form, viewers are invited to confront their own sense of place—and to reflect on how displacement, inheritance, and memory continue to shape the architecture of who we are. Rather than offering answers, the exhibition opens a space to refigure our surroundings as dynamic cultural terrains—fluid, negotiated, and alive.