Perhaps the most poignant expression of human fragility in the post-digital era can be found in Minu Park’s series *The Yellow Cyborg*. Park draws on the figure of the cyborg to dissect the instability of physical and psychological identity, as well as the fragility of human, non-human, and more-than-human relationships. Her animated figurines are not superhuman heroes of transhumanism. Rather, they are hybrid creatures whose bodies are composed of fragmented, biomorphic forms and surreal mechanical assemblages.

In slow, repetitive movements, these hybrid bodily constructions remain in a precarious state of limbo between agility and fragility, between vitality and extinction. In the work *Yellow Cyborg 2*, which depicts a technoid hybrid body in a tense, crouched posture, an eerie alertness and intense tension unfold.

The hybrid body leans far forward while its gaze is directed backward—a posture that immediately brings to mind the defensive reaction of a frightened animal. The continuously rotating electronic eyes scan the exhibition space with alarm and vigilance, establishing a deeply unsettling, intently observant relationship with the viewer.

Here, Park translates personal experiences of panic attacks, cultural alienation, and deep depression—the feeling that one’s own body is “disintegrating” in unfamiliar contexts—into an alien-like physical form. In *Yellow Cyborg 4*, this unease specifically extends to life as a stranger and a migrant. The bodily landscape symbolically constructed for this purpose mutates into a complex urban structure of streets, rails, and systems of movement, thereby ruthlessly exposing the psychological instability and dynamic fluidity of oscillating identities.

The cyborg—a term coined by Donna Haraway in her 1985 “Cyborg Manifesto”—becomes, in Park’s work, the ultimate diasporic subject: trapped in an endless cycle with no destination and perpetually entangled in context. Haraway’s cyborg, too, was already the “bastard” of patriarchal technocapitalism: genderless, fragmented, without official affiliation, socially constructed, and rigidly integrated into alien networks—“a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self.”