Kihyun Park’s open studio at Yellow Brick presented materials from her ongoing research project Skin, Stone, Dust, which began in 2021 with her father’s artificial marble factory in Korea.
Skin, Stone, Dust is an autoethnographic tale that weaves fragments of global capitalism around artificial marble, unfolding across South Korea, Greece, and Cambodia. Rooted in her family’s marble factory—founded in 1990, the year of her birth—the project explores how personal and material histories intersect. After returning to South Korea in 2021, Ki Hyun Park began reflecting on her entanglement with the factory’s rhythms, tracing connections between capitalism, labor migration, and climate shifts, while contemplating cycles of rise, fall, and the migration of “origin.”
As part of the open studio, she presented Sites, a one-hour performance accompanied by the book [ ]. Over the course of an hour, Kihyun Park attempted to write a page using replicas of paving stones from the streets of Nea Ionia. Sites unfolded alongside the book [ ], activating the text through constant shifting, while the book invited viewers into multiple depths of the site.
The book [ ] remained available to be read throughout the performance.
Credits
Letter in the publication: Eirini Fountedaki
Graphic design: Nahyun Park
Ceramic support: Cabane Athens
Puplishing: Sleep On It Press
Exhibition Photos: Eunjung Hwang
Supported by Korean Arts Council, Culture Moves Europe
This research is developed in close dialogue with Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki, Director of Yellow Brick.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.