Ji-Min Park on Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

The actor and artist takes inspiration from Gonzalez-Foerster’s power for storytelling – “She trusts in the power of her own capacity to tell stories, and when you trust in that, you have so much freedom,” says Park

This story is taken from the Autumn/Winter 2026 issue of AnOther Magazine: 

“I first met Dominique on the train back to Paris from the Cannes Film Festival, where I’d been with my first movie, Return to Seoul. I remember telling her my doubts about continuing in the film industry. I was so happy to meet her because her work was very important to me when I was an art student [at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris] – I used to go to see her exhibitions and I’d read all her books. Dominique’s work is so powerful. She can turn these autobiographical elements into something universal. She’s like an actress, in that she can play so many roles and has no limits with the material – installations, sculptures, pictures ... She trusts in the power of her own capacity to tell stories, and when you trust in that, you have so much freedom. It’s something I try to do in my own work – to take these intimate things that are unique to me and create a universal language with them. I like to say that my work is a kind of emotional digestion.”

In the blue-lit sanctum of Infrastructures, her recent solo show at Paris’s Pony gallery, Ji-Min Park haunted her own teenage bedroom as a site of trauma and transformation – “a space of all possibilities”, as she puts it. The artist and actor came to France from South Korea at the age of nine with no grasp of the language, a bruising experience that left her feeling physically sick with anxiety. “I try to understand all the contradictions that come when you don’t belong in one place or another,” she says. Park channelled her cross-cultural tensions into a breakout film role in 2022’s Return to Seoul and has gone on to appear in A Private Life with Jodie Foster; The Little Sister, which won the Queer Palm at Cannes in 2025; and this year’s Love Me Tender, opposite Vicky Krieps. In her art, she continues to mine her teenage years for meaning, inspired by the intimate spaces of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s installation work.

This story features in the Autumn/Winter 2026 issue, marking 25 years of AnOther Magazine, on sale internationally now. Order here