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Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

			A quiet image emerges from a neutral, grey field. It enters through the eyes and lands on the heart—familiar and gentle. If the camera is a tool for recording the visible world as it is, Min Byung-Hun’s photographs are far from such documentation. Photographs as records become essential evidence of when and what the photographer captured. In Min’s work, however, the questions of when and what arise only after the deep sensation felt in his heart. His photographs exist beyond the boundaries of time, place, and subject, and they evoke core memories.

 

For Min, intuitive feeling matters more than the subject itself. Conventional landscape photography points outward, introducing grand locations. Min’s work reflects inward, holding delicate emotion. It makes us wonder: Is the world we see true? Where does beauty come from? Within the deep shadows and the textures of white, we become aware of the act of looking itself. His photographs recall the stillness of East Asian ink paintings, drawing the viewer in to notice the smallest of strokes. The rectangular frame feels whole and harmonious, down to its margins.