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Park Chan-wook: When the watchmaker stops time

Photo : Park Chan-wook / Galerie VU'

Nov 12–28Free

Park Chan-wook: When the watchmaker stops time

For the international public, Park Chan-wook evokes a flamboyant cinematographic virtuosity and baroque narratives crossed by stylized violence. Yet, photography reveals another facet of his creative genius: a space of freedom where the filmmaker frees himself from the constraints of the screenplay and filming.

Galerie VU’ (Paris 15th)

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Where his cinema demands control and narrative, his photographs welcome the fragment, chance, and silence. Throughout his travels and wanderings, Park Chan-wook captures "moments of inattention of reality," attentive to textures, shadows, and visual coincidences, which serve as clues to an invisible drama.

His images oscillate between contemplative minimalism and unsettling strangeness. Color, often muted, sometimes appearing in bursts, guides the eye toward 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 Galerie VU' invites the viewer to invent.

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Step away from the cinematic intensity of Park Chan-wook to explore his unexpected journey into stillness and photographic intuition. These captures act as visual puzzles where shadows and odd coincidences invite you to script your own secret narratives.

Galerie VU’ presents the photography of director Park Chan-wook from 6 November to 28 November 2026. Diverging from the structured narrative of his films, this exhibition explores themes of silence, chance, and the beauty of fleeting moments. Through minimalist and haunting imagery, the artist captures details often missed by the eye, transforming landscapes into visual enigmas. This exhibition is completely free to attend, offering visitors an intimate look at his work in the 15th arrondissement. It is an invitation to pause and invent stories hidden within the stillness of his compositions.

Located at 60, avenue de Saxe in the 15th arrondissement, Galerie VU’ hosts an exhibition dedicated to the photographic work of Park Chan-wook. While the director is celebrated for his cinematic precision, these images reveal a different sensitivity, focusing on the fragment, the accidental, and the silence found in travel and daily wandering. His work plays with subtle, muted colors and sudden bursts of intensity to draw the viewer toward an anomaly in the landscape.

The gallery welcomes visitors from Tuesday to Saturday, between 11:00 and 18:00, starting 6 November through 28 November 2026. Each photograph acts as an open-ended puzzle, capturing a moment of waiting or the space just outside the frame. The exhibition invites attendees to engage with these images as if they were the beginning or the end of an unseen story. Entry is free for all visitors during these hours.

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