dialogue _ synthese ver
One Saturday afternoon, A and B are sitting at a cafe spending spare time looking through the photos posted on A’s website with laptop. It is a website where A’s work has been uploaded and archived, and they often chat while looking at the pictures they’ve already seen.
All the photos were uploaded and managed by B.
B wanted to see the pictures in chronological order for the first time in a while, so B went to the last page of the website. This is because it is displaying the most recent photos on the first page.
B asked A while looking through the last few photos on the page, but also at the same time the very first collection of A, “Untitled Gallery.”
“What made you to start this project?, How did you get the direction?”
A said, “The title is ‘covered and wrapped’, I went to the Louvre and it helped.”
“Oh, right”
As B said so, I remembered the episode that A told me before. B went to Paris to visit friend, and went to the Louvre alone, and said that there were a square, but anyway, something was under construction in front of the square, so it was covered with cloth and wrapped with string. It contrasted with Louvre’s sophisticated and sleek appearance, and felt different from the surrounding landscape and environment.
I remember saying that it was a work of exploring the inner meaning of covering and warpping, starting with the emotions and unique silhouettes felt in space.
‘There was also a work that was kind of related to the place,’ B scrolls up thinking so.
“Dead Poet Society”. It was a project inspired by the movie ‘Dead poet society’.
If “covered and wrapped” is a work inspired by a place in the beginning, ‘Dead poet society’ is a project inspired by a place later in the work.
A always chooses a place to film all the works after the work is done, and A planned to film them in front of a shelf stacked with books from a second-hand bookstore in the area called ‘Dongmyo’. Although he eventually filmed elsewhere due to limitations at the place, A said that the used books that abandoned and gathered here and there, losing their owners, and changing their owners, were connected to the socially unnoticed people he portrayed on the work.
After B finished these recollections, B wanted to ask A about what B often thinks these days.
“It may be a simple or complicated question, but what does a place mean to you?”
A answers without much thought.
“Because I like various places and many people also change places and live their lives, the word ‘place’ itself seems to have the positive power. I don’t like change, but at the same time I like change. And just as each person has a different place to go and feel interested in each situation, it seems to be a topic with endless things to talk about”.
B asks, “What does a place mean to me, and how do I define or find a specific place?”
, “I don’t think I have a special place to talk about. Is there a way to think about it?”
A replied, “Try to make it special even if it’s not a special place, the place where your phone was stolen may be a bad memory for you, but it’s a place where everyone likes it and parties at the same time. On the other hand, right in front of that street there is a church, which is a place with a completely opposite feeling. Well, think of a thrift shop with a certain designer’s taste, or a place with a situation and an individual’s story”.
B is lost in thought.
“And ask questions like what do similar places have in common and what are their differences, what do people with different environments and backgrounds like, why do they like it, and whether anyone will like it if they collect altogether what people like?”
B suddenly felt heavy in the heart.
“Let’s go to the second hand bookstore,” B suggested to A.
A and B, who arrived at the bookstore, are looking around separately.
A went out to see antiques and B is searching through piles of old books. Then B found some parts of a diary. It looks like it is talking about…