Sunmin Park

Sunmin Park becomes a small creature, akin to an insect, moving slowly to closely observe the hidden ecosystem of mushrooms within the vastness of nature. The clusters of mushrooms, with their pillars and roofs, resemble a city. These forest mushrooms, which develop their own form and then naturally decay when the time comes, both contrast and connect with the characteristics of human-built architecture. The Architecture of Mushrooms (2019), created from a year of filming mushroom clips in the Gotjawal Forest on Jeju Island and intercut with narrations by thirteen architects from Korea and abroad, reimagines the relationship between nature and humanity.