Céline Minkyung Park

Celine uses multiple methodologies in her work. She has a graphic design, film, photography, and fine art background and draws on these experiences to suit the specific subjects in her work. She interrogates our perceptions of cultural and social constructs that exist in society, and creates speculative scenarios around social hierarchy to explore individual experiences that we go through. The scenarios that she creates are usually polarised dystopian or utopian ones and can sit in the future, the past as a counterfactual scenario or the present. An underlying objective of her projects is to remind people that culture can unconsciously manipulate us and that it is always important to look through all the layers of a subject.

She uses roundness, pastel colours and child-like face proportions in her projects. However, her work is not intended to be child-like but to communicate with all generations, Her audiences may not understand the meaning of the work from an initial glance but will be drawn in to explore the subject more fully. She has explored presenting her work using striking aesthetics for previous projects on the Design Interactions course. Her interest in using this style of imagery is that it allows her to communicate with a large audience about a relatively complicated and obtuse subject. She makes her work to be placed in a setting that can provoke discussion around controversial subjects.