On a Calm Morning; contemplative stills from star movie director Park Chan-wook

This responsiveness generally emerges in surprising methods, Park’s photos lending obvious sentience to many on a regular basis objects. There’s a a cluster of backyard umbrellas flocking collectively to look again at him, or a stately veiled determine majestically sitting on a slope; Park has named the previous picture Faces, and the latter Titan. The exhibition press materials consists of his ideas on a shot of a statue, a golden replica of Rodin’s Thinker, which he interprets as weighed down with a hose. 

“A man I encountered while walking through my neighborhood,” writes Park. “If you look closely at the base of the statue, you can read the inscription: ‘Think deep’. And indeed, looking at the rubber hose draped around his neck, the man seemed burdened with too many worries. I found myself concerned that his thoughts might drive him too far – that he might hang himself with that hose. At that moment, the hose no longer felt to me like merely a visual metaphor for excessive thought.”

Park has an ongoing exhibition of six photos on the Park Chan-Wook film theatre at CGV Yongsan, which is residence to the world’s largest Imax cinema; he has named the unending solo present Pantheism, after the assumption that there’s divinity in every part, not a indifferent, omniscient god alone. “Most of the subjects of my photographs are quite meaningless objects, but if you have trash combined with eyes that are interested and a specific brief moment of light, you can discover a certain kind of spirit,” he says. 

Park additionally enjoys the half that viewers play in decoding his pictures as a result of, the place films present narrative and sound that assist direct the viewers, nonetheless photos stay enigmatic. With much less data to go on, guests should be extra lively, he says, bringing their very own creativeness or maybe experiences into play to fill the gaps. “You have to smell the scent, hear the sound, even if the photographs do not reveal any of those,” he says. “You must imagine more than you can see in front of you.”

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