ThisWeekendRoom presents a solo exhibition 《Everything Returns to Dessert》 by artist Shinyoung Park, on view through October 25.

Shinyoung Park reconstructs the sociocultural characteristics of unfamiliar environments she has encountered while moving across various regions into subjective records. She primarily examines the boundaries between humans and animals, civilization and nature, reality and imagination, inviting viewers to reframe events unfolding beyond the time and space on which they each stand.

The fragments collected from various places are recorded through prints, drawings, and three-dimensional works using diverse media such as paper, wood, and stained glass. This exhibition revisits the residual memories and emotions that the artist had been unable to process for several years, stemming from a past journey to Morocco. In the process of digestion, filtered traces are visualized according to the artist’s own formal rules, revealing how they operate within her present and future experiences beyond mere recollection.

Shinyoung Park’s work is not simply about memory or homage; it is an attempt to transform the individuality of observed beings in order to draw out from nature something that seems otherwise unreachable. By visiting regions where traces of diverse terrains, cultural identities, and primordial ways of life remain, she confronts the current state of humanity, which continues to idealize and substitute the past.

As a result, her works summon the senses suppressed by modern civilization and instincts erased by scientific explanations. Following scenes that hint at the origins and cycles of life, as well as struggle, subversion, and processes of domestication, the exhibition invites viewers to contemplate the countless journeys of life that constitute the implicit order governing nature and the world.

“Everything Returns to Dessert”
2025.09.17 - 2025.10.25
Wed-Sat 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm
ThisWeekendRoom
30, Hannam-daero 42-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea