A travel without visual experience © Pak Sheung-chuen
A travel without visual experience started in Malaysia where Pak Sheung-chuen traveled blinded. Having to rely on his other senses to feel and guide himself along the journey, his photos document what he is supposed to have seen. On the gallery stand, the viewer is invited to re-enact the experience by taking pictures of his pictures in a darkened room, hoping to witness the journey later from the camera.
Conceived like a "mise en abyme", the room is a parallel space, a mirror where to watch the past.
© Pak Sheung-chuen
The extraordinary with Pak Sheung-chuen lies in the ordinary of life existence so he'll shop for the words of a supermaket bill, wait for all the people sleep, collect his breath, wait for a potential friend to turn up at a busy train station, as ways to explore randomness in urban environment.
Pak Sheung-chuen inhabits the world in a rather playful manner, using his mind as an ultimate place of freedom.
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