Junsun Park


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Existence of the Individual and SocietyA Person in trappedDaily
SOUTH KOREA • GERMANY        INSTAGRAM

EXISTENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY (2024-2025)


selected works



This project questions how the individual exists within society. It explores how personal dignity and the sense of existence are erased, marginalized, and rendered invisible by social systems. This inquiry stems from my own experience—specifically, the period of compulsory military service I underwent under the constraints of national control during the COVID-19 pandemic. The military, as a closed and dehumanizing structure, functioned as a system that reduced individuals to mere units of functionality, and within it, I directly experienced the erosion of my own existence. The loss of self—visible in the widespread depression and psychological suffering among soldiers—was something I confronted closely, yet society largely ignored or concealed these aspects. The individual is always embedded within a structure, just as the structure itself is shaped and sustained by individuals. This project examines how individuals gradually lose their existence within social systems and seeks to visualize the latent, silent forms of violence that reside within.
이 프로젝트는 사회 속에서 개인이 어떤 방식으로 존재하는지를 묻는다. 개인의 존엄성과 존재성이 사회 시스템 속에서 어떻게 지워지고, 소외되며, 비가시화되는지를 탐구하며, 이러한 문제의식은 나의 개인적 경험, 특히 코로나 시기 국가적 통제와 동시에 겪은 군 복무의 맥락에서 출발한다. 군대라는 폐쇄적이고 비인권적인 구조는 인간을 단지 기능 단위로 환원시키는 시스템이었고, 나는 그 안에서 존재의 상실을 직접 경험했다. 존재를 상실한 인간, 즉 군인들의 우울증과 정신적 고통은 쉽게 마주하였고, 사회는 이 면을 외면하거나 비추지 않았다. 개인은 항상 구조 속에 위치하며, 동시에 그 구조는 개인들에 의해 구성되고 유지된다. 이 프로젝트는 사회적 시스템 안에서 개인이 어떻게 존재를 잃어가는지를 응시하고, 그 안에 잠재된 고요한 폭력의 층위를 시각화한다.






Wohin wollte ich gehen
single-channel video, color, sound
00 : 04 :12.
2024




Quelle Mimirs
Plant pot, pump, copper pipe, projector
70 x 40 x 40 cm
2024

Observation from multiple angles
Acrylic plate, steel angles, smooth sheet metal, perforated sheet metal, aquarium cube, fog machine, tablet, name tag cover
digital work
137 x 32 x 32 cm
2025





Smart Farm
Shelf, hose, bottle, egg, water, salt, dish soap, tablet, joystick, cellophane, LED lighting, hotplate
180 x 90 x 45 cm
2025




‘S m a r t F a r m ’ shows,
how society in the future controls humans. Even before birth, the environment and atmosphere are optimized and regulated by a system. The human being is a living creature that grows up in an environment created by society and must adapt to its specifications. Human life is regarded as something easy, as in the game ‘Sims’, and is controlled by ‘someone’. In the game ‘Sims’, the player creates their own city and determines everything from the ground up, including the creation of people. This control opens up a perspective on how society controls humans. Through this work, the observer can experience how they control a human life through the game Sims.




I am just a small dot
Foil, projector, microscope, tablet, phone, lighting
digital work
diemnsion varibale, 2025



The project shows individuals within society through a live CCTV channel and connects this with plankton, the microorganisms of the sea. The individuals are portrayed like plankton – as tiny organisms that are only visible under the microscope.



Expendable 70002380
Incubator, milking machine, mask, timer, hourglass, expanded metal, cable, acrylic cylinder, sand
digital work
diemension variable
2025




What is the difference between a soldier and a cow?
Generative KI, DALL-E










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