2023 HOQICM Gallery Invited Solo Exhibition 'Vision of Balance' (the Manual of Landscape)

Park Jin-ha's exhibition <Vision of Balance> will be held from August 25 to September 23, 2023. He will present works that he has taken by visiting and photographing lighthouses along the coast of South Korea for the past 10 years. (South Korea is a peninsula surrounded by the sea on three sides due to geographical reasons.)

By connecting the subject of lighthouses to our reality, he calmly asks where the essence of time and space and the original image begin.

You must find out what he thinks when he looks at lighthouses located in beautiful nature, what philosophical questions he asks, and why he suggests the concept of balance while appreciating his works.

He has questioned the center of our vision, which has been tamed through images shared by our generation and numerous media, and has thoroughly limited the digital perspective created by modern technology and created his own various cutting-edge shooting techniques to establish his own photographic language with delicate shooting methods. This is most clearly the case when a landscape is not a scene but a space, a narrative in which an arbitrarily objectified artist describes the space of the world through his eyes. Based on the results of his dozens of visits to places with historical scars, just like an explorer, he has continued his aesthetic experiments by expressing the objects, light, wind, movement, and background existing in a space as a "scene" containing a single space and time with his own interpretation.

The concepts he created by continuously performing and recording the results one by one are classified into 7 categories: <At That Time>, <the Eyes>, <Half & Halfs>, <Void>, <Convergence & Divergence>, <Balance>, and <Beyond>, and are developed in Chapter 1 of 'Landscape Manual'.

This is Image Taking; "a result born from Moment Taking", and provides an artistic message that transcends the boundaries of photography and an opportunity for viewers to actively communicate.

He says that waiting for a moment for several weeks in a place is a very natural routine for a photographer. The end of that waiting is not waiting for creation or creation, but understanding the image. It is a process of accepting everything completely, and it is the minimum attempt to show the audience what <Park Jin-ha saw> as it is.

He speaks calmly. "What I saw then, <reproducing the situation at that time> ultimately began with seeing the world as <water and stones>. If you understand objects and reality through water and stones, you can express <time as a relationship> and find <a common ground of vision>."

This exhibition, <Vision of Balance>, is an opportunity to read the contemporary era and attitude toward life as seen by an artist.

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