A photography exhibition by siblings Shim Jang-seop and Shim Chang-seop runs at KT&G Sangsangmadang Chuncheon Gallery through the 28th. Both photographers have worked for over 40 years and explore ways of ‘capturing time.’ Shim Jang-seop presents black-and-white images of Seodaemun Prison (Seodaemun Prison History Hall) — a site layered with memories from the Japanese colonial period — using first-person perspectives to lead viewers into the prisoners’ experience and the chronology of confinement: isolation, imprisonment, loneliness, surveillance and torture. Shim Chang-seop photographs wooden utility poles in color, elevating these disappearing relics (전신주: utility poles) as vertical forms that stand as analog markers of connection and shifting time across cityscapes, fields and snow. Together, the two bodies of work prompt visitors to feel time held within still spaces.
