Memories of Wandering – Small-format works from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s
Visual Arts
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Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to present an exhibition by the Korean photographer Bae Bien-U featuring a selection of intimate, small works. Bae Bien-U is renowned for creating meditative landscape photographs, which have an almost calligraphic quality about them. The leitmotif behind his photographs is a reflection on communion and the possible osmosis of man with nature – the source of life – with which we must live in harmony.
This exhibition is comprised of sixteen small works, all hand-printed by Bae Bien-U. Every photograph is unique, as no other editions were ever printed in this small format. They consist of different series: Seascapes, Sonamu (Pine Trees), and Orum (Windscapes). Two works are photographed in Olympic Park, Seoul, and HIA in Hyang-il am, Yeosu along the southern coast. All pine trees were taken in Gyeongju, the Sea- and Windscapes were all photographed in Jeju, a volcanic island with a particularly unique climate as a result. In each photograph, Bae captures the energy of life that is believed to pass through them. The ritual of coming and going, of man’s short “encounters” in life and nature.
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