From Okay-pop idol to CEO, exhibition places unlikely quartet behind digital camera

At Storage by Hyundai Card in Seoul, 4 people from markedly totally different worlds collect beneath one roof, sure by a single shared ardour: a deeply private devotion to pictures.

The group exhibition, titled “Our [Moving] Images,” brings collectively the visible practices of Hyundai Card CEO Ted Chung, vogue photographer Ahn Joo-young, singer-actor Kim Do-yeon and industrial director Ray Yi — figures whose skilled paths might differ, however whose photos reveal a typical intuition to watch and protect the world by means of the lens.

Most of the works on view weren’t created for industrial ends. Instead, they learn extra like spontaneous traces of each day life — fragments of passing moments that emerged quietly between the calls for of profession and routine.

Rather than approaching the present seeking neatly outlined messages, guests might discover larger reward in merely transferring with its circulation, permitting the textures and sensibilities of every artist’s perspective to clean over them.

To spotlight the distinct visible identities of its 4 members, the exhibition unfolds throughout Storage’s two exposed-brick flooring by means of a collection of color-themed areas, every dedicated to a single artist. Photographs differ in kind, from framed prints to glowing gentle packing containers and pictures suspended on fluttering cloth.

For Chung, pictures has lengthy been guided by a private philosophy of compositional precision, the place he “carefully arranges subjects on a proper plate.” His almost 20 pictures, spanning portraits and landscapes, typically exude that exacting sensibility.

Yet the present additionally reveals moments the place Chung intentionally pushes in opposition to these instincts. At occasions, he mentioned, his disciplined strategy started to really feel virtually overly fixated on the act of taking pictures itself slightly than on the medium’s spontaneity.

That shift first surfaced in a picture casually captured on a prepare desk whereas en path to an exhibition of German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, an artist recognized for his free, unpretentious visible language. Inspired by Tillmans’ nonetheless lifes, Chung approached the shot with uncommon lightness.

For Kim, whose public life started in 2016 along with her debut as a part of the Okay-pop venture group I.O.I at a younger age, pictures grew to become tied to a interval of non-public reckoning.

Following the group’s disbandment, Kim discovered herself confronting questions of id, relationships and selfhood. As she regularly turned towards performing, pictures grew to become a method of navigating that transitional chapter.

Yi’s works equally provide glimpses past his skilled position as a industrial director, presenting photos captured throughout Berlin, Hong Kong and New York that uncover delicate wit and understated humor.

Meanwhile, vogue photographer Ahn’s part is putting for the inclusion of his uncommon private work: a black-and-white close-up portrait of actor Lee Sung-kyung, shot in 2013 earlier than she had totally risen to her present prominence.

In an business the place celeb portraits are sometimes polished to near-perfection, Ahn’s picture stands aside for its insistence on preserving pure texture. Fine facial hair and unfiltered particulars stay intact. The outcome isn’t an idealized star picture, however an intimate report of 1 particular person.