Park Chan-wook : Quand l’horloger immobilise le temps

For international audiences, Park Chan-wook brings to mind dazzling cinematic virtuosity and baroque narratives shot through with stylised violence. Yet his photography reveals another facet of his creative genius: a space of freedom where the film-maker frees himself from the constraints of the screenplay and the shoot.

Where his films demand control and storytelling, his photographs welcome the fragment, chance and silence. Over the course of his travels and wanderings, Park Chan-wook captures “moments of inattention in reality”, attentive to textures, shadows and visual coincidences, clues to an invisible drama.

His images oscillate between contemplative minimalism and unsettling strangeness. Colour, often muted and at times erupting in bursts, guides the eye towards an anomaly in the landscape. It is a photography of waiting and of the off-screen. Each image becomes an open enigma, the beginning or the end of a story that VU’ invites the viewer to imagine.