Exhibition
Location
Olive Tjaden Gallery
Tjaden Hall
M–F, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Contact
Department of Art
(607) 255-6730
Abstract
This exhibition explores the boundaries of travel, movement, life, and memory, centered on the forms of airplanes, birds, dogs, and fish. These beings drift across sky, land, and water, each navigating different environments yet sharing a common essence of motion. Through them, we encounter both estrangement and connection, as well as the ephemeral traces left by entities in transit.
In Bones Between Air, the airplane transcends its role as a mere vessel of transportation to become a carrier of memory that bridges time and space, embodying our profound desire for movement. By connecting the primordial human impulse to migrate with the abstracted forms of animals and aircraft, the exhibition questions what “movement” truly means to individuals in an era of hyper-connectivity, where physical and digital journeys constantly intersect.
Biography
Hyunjin Park (M.F.A. ’25) is a Korean interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in New York/ Seoul, working across sculpture, installation, performance, and video. Raised in one of the world’s most fast-paced societies, she investigates how technology-driven capitalism reshapes traditions and reinforces boundaries between the old and new, human and non-human, and life and death. Her work focuses on themes of non-human beings, including plants, animals, monsters, and artificial intelligence, exploring the intimate relationships nurtured through care and the myths surrounding these entities.
