
Most think of books as familiar. In fact, the familiarity with these objects shapes expectations of them–their size, material, or content. Artist books offer an opportunity to leave behind those expectations, opening new possibilities for how readers might structure, find meaning, and experience books. For the last twenty years, artist and educator Yoonshin Park has engaged artist books as an experimental form and conceptual space to expand the understanding of what an artist book can be. This exhibition presents new and ongoing works by Park that further her exploration of artist books as spatial, symbolic, and participatory sites capable of engaging notions of authority, memory, societal expectations, and marginality. Since 2019, Park has been teaching courses on artist books virtually at Hyde Park Art Center and has found her practice of teaching to be as generative for her as it is for her students. The title of the exhibition, Prompt and Prompted refers to this reciprocal exchange.