Hyeweon Park

Not Entirely Mine

In this work, I explore the formation of identity through a Korean cultural background and the personal condition of being born in the year of the tiger. The tiger appears as a symbol that describes me, but it is also an external image I cannot fully control.The tiger's face merged onto a human body is not simply decorative — it functions as another layer that constitutes who I am. The exposed bodily structure and incomplete forms reveal that personal identity is not fixed, but formed through the overlapping of cultural elements, memory, and emotion.Here, the tiger simultaneously expresses me and defines me, and I exist in the space between — in a state that never fully resolves into one. This work begins from the question of whether the self can be explained through a single identity, and is an attempt to surface that instability itself.