Yoonshin Park's solo exhibition "Prompt and Prompted" is on view at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, featuring artists' books, video, and paper-based works that explore reading, memory, and materiality. The show includes pieces from Park's "How (Not) to Read" series, such as the unfurled scroll "I can no longer see. Whose story remains?" (2022), alongside works like "Partial Reading," "Night," and "Neither Flat Nor Fixed," accompanied by a video of the artist manipulating materials that generates a white-noise soundtrack.
The exhibition matters because it positions Park as an artists' books manufacturer, challenging conventional narrative structures and inviting viewers to engage with non-objective forms and poetic traces. By blurring the lines between book, sculpture, and installation, Park's work contributes to ongoing conversations about how we read, remember, and find meaning in visual art, while the Hyde Park Art Center provides a platform for experimental, process-based practice in Chicago's art scene.