The body
stands,
leans,
sits,
reclines.

Support becomes instruction.
Through rigid frames and subtle guidance, the body is invited, corrected, or denied.

My practice explores how physical structures shape bodily experience, asking how bodies are managed and imagined across public and private spaces.
I am particularly interested in how familiar forms and gestures such as holding, binding, and pressing recall sensations before language.

In my process, I alter and reassemble objects like furniture, plastic toys, medical devices, and animal restraint structures.
By misaligning their functions, I expose the traces and tensions of bodily presence held within their forms, where structure becomes both a proposition and a demand. My works seek out the soft threshold between containment and care.

—
Soomin (b. 1995) works between Seoul and New York.
Her practice lingers where the body and everyday structures come into contact.