So Young Park
So Young Park
 

Between eyelids and pupils 2024



Part of Independent Space Index Festival 2024

Flat 1
Radetzkystraße 4 1030 Vienna (AT)
Exhibition Date: May 31 - June 2, 2024

Aquarium
Kurzbauergasse 9, Vienna (AT)
Exhibition Date: October 3 - October 9, 2023

Description:
Between eyelids and pupils
begins with the question
How should one live ones life? a questions inevitably intertwined with
How should one prepare for one’s death?


As a response, a floral sculpture is created for one’s own funeral. Imaginging who might attend this future gathering shifts the focus from ceremony itself to the relationships, gestures, and forms of care accumulated throughout life. The sculpture  becomes a way of attending to one’s own absence in advance.

Drawing from a Korean tradition of sending large flower wreaths to funerals, the work frames moruning not only as a private loss, but as a communal moment in which care and remembrance circulate among others. Rather than marking an end, the sculpture opens a space where the traces of living continues within the living people.

Photo credit: So Young Park


 

So Young Park
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So Young Park
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