WHERE THE SOULS LINGER

Exhibition Statement. We often compare life to a film. We complete our own stories in scenes that continue without end, but not every moment flows in the direction we expected. Sometimes we need to be able to call 'OK, Cut' even on an imperfect scene and stop for a while. That is not giving up but a choice to move on to the next scene. Park Gyeol's exhibition is a story about the space between the scenes of life, where souls stay for a moment for themselves. Light does not disappear; it seeps in. The love and hope, faith and comfort we meet as we live do not vanish completely even as time passes. A small sincerity someone leaves behind seeps into another person's inner self and becomes light, and the soul that holds that light gains the strength to fly again even in darkness. Through a journey that runs from the inflow and internalization of light to its persistence and flight, the exhibition is a metaphor for how we pass through the time of life. On that journey, souls sit for a while to watch the sunset and look back on the time they have passed and the light left to them. Even days that were not perfect and moments that did not go as planned leave their own colors within us. Though the sun sets, the moments its light reached do not disappear. Though the light goes down, what has seeped into us does not. Rather than telling visitors to go further, this exhibition suggests they stay a while for themselves. It is a time when you do not have to prove or complete anything, a time to discover the light that has seeped into you and to move toward tomorrow again. The end of a scene does not mean the end of our film. A soul that pauses before the setting light begins to fly again, holding that light.