Whether it be landscape or still life, perhaps it is that I shoot all things as if shooting a portrait. I portray the status, character, life dynamics, current sentiment, and face of whoever has become the subject of my camera. This is how I communicate with all beings of the world.
– Park Chan-wook

Kukje Gallery is presenting 《Your Faces》, Park Chan-wook film director's solo exhibition. The exhibit runs until December 19, 2021. It will include 31 works selected from a new catalogue of his photographic works and the gallery will provide a rich experience of physically meeting the photographs through the environment.

In the introductory essay for the exhibition, Haery Kim said, “Whether the object is a landscape, or a still life, or mere fragments that cannot be identified a specific name, Park Chan-wook manages to find out the eye of his subject. He makes eye contact and reads its face. He finds beauty in what does not seek to be beautiful and thus questions the boundary of beauty. For photographer Park Chan-wook, photogenic beauty is a fragile yet tenacious order that is veiled by the shadows of dominant value systems and conventional aesthetics, but that can be discovered with the aid of the camera if we are willing to briefly pause and respect the phenomenon itself.”

For more information : Kukje Gallery
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