By observing her emotions, Park Mira seeks to discover and record where they come from and what factors have shaped them. Although she considers emotions to be a highly personal and subjective domain, she is interested in how they can be viewed and interpreted within the context of society. Mira Park's work attempts to make connections between space and space, story and story, conscious and unconscious, virtual and real, and is presented through drawing animation, installation, and painting. Using black and white drawings as her main medium, she has been exploring narrative structures that occur simultaneously on the screen.

Continuing to experiment with theatrical structures, the artist assumes the concept of the "fourth wall," an imaginary wall that separates the real world from the virtual world on stage, on the surface of her works, and attempts to move various icons that exist on the screen out of the screen and into a new space and story.

This exhibition Frog's Eyes presents the results of my work on drawing animation. It is a record of my research on 'movement' by going back to the beginning and stopping my self-censorship of general movement and naturalness. I focus on the sensations that are expressed from unfamiliar movements rather than the realization of natural movements.

 

*The Frog's Eye

Some vertebrates including frogs see only moving objects. Whether they truly perceive only moving objects is a matter of further research, but it is assumed because frogs do not try to eat a dead fly in front of them. This is probably because the cells in the frog's retina that recognize insects only respond to ‘movement’.

 

I observe my emotions, find out where they come from and what factors have shaped them, and record them. Most of them consider emotions to be extremely personal and subjective, but I am interested in how emotions can be considered and interpreted in the context of society. In addition, images and stories that grow in the gap between consciousness and unconsciousness are engraved using mainly black materials, creating uncomfortable and displaced situations at the boundary between everyday life and virtuality, and showing them through media such as drawing and drawing animation.

Park Mi-ra (b.1982, born in Seoul) held her own exhibitions at the Interlude(Art Space Boan2), Walking in the dark(A-Lounge), The waves at night(Gyeonggi Museum of Art Project Gallery). She attended group exhibitions including Kaleidoscope(A-Lounge), Over and Above(DooNamJae ArtCenter), Guide Marks(Gallery IN) and What If(A –Lounge). In 2015, 2019 and 2022 she was selected for Artist Support Program which is supported by Seoul Foundation of Art & Culture. In 2018, she was selected for a project to publish a book, “Chromaticity" which is also sponsored by Seoul Foundation of Art & Culture. She participated in the Gyeonggi Creation Center residency.