Exhibition Brochure for The Playful Days 놀기 좋은 시절에 전시 브로슈어 작업
There was a time when play was the lightest face of time.
Because it could not be held, it felt more vivid; because it disappeared, it remained more clearly.
This catalogue begins with the idea of seeing those moments of play not as simple documentation, but as constructed memories—something we can unfold and revisit. The gestures of children, the sounds of alleyways, the small objects once held in our hands—each is translated into an object, then carefully arranged within a single frame.
Formally, the structure borrows from the tradition of Chaekgeori.
Upon this visual language—once used to display knowledge and objects in ordered compositions—I layered the intangible experience of play. As a result, the image becomes not a still life, but a cabinet of emotions. Each object does not explain its function; instead, it quietly evokes memory.
This work is not an attempt to restore the past.
Rather, it reconfigures the feeling of play through a contemporary gaze, allowing us to touch once more the texture of time we have forgotten.
The days of play may have passed,
but the way we look back at them still remains with us.
