Visual Artist Park Gui-sub’s Special Exhibition On Display

Park Gui-sub, better known by his artist name, “BAKi,” presented a special exhibition as a side event at the 14th Ballet Festival Korea. Held at the Hangaram Art Museum in the Seoul Arts Center, the exhibition introduced about 80 photographs and videos on the theme of “layer.”

He is renowned for his iconic photographic works, capturing the beauty of dancers' bodies with unparalleled artistry. Park also took part in designing the title sequence in the opening of a Netflix series, “Sweet Home” (2020), actively extending a range of his career pathways. 

After graduating from K-Arts, Park Gui-sub joined the Korean National Ballet in 2006. He garnered recognition as an emerging ballerino when he obtained the Bronze at the 2007 New York International Ballet Competition and placed 2^nd in the senior male at the 2009 Seoul International Dance Competition. Engrossed in photography, nonetheless, he has taught himself photography. From 2012 on, he left the Korean National Ballet and began shooting the photos of dancers full-time.

Shadow, No. 2, a piece in Park’s early work series, depicting a tree made by figures of 10 dancers of the Korean National Ballet tangled and clung with one another, did receive great attention. It was selected as a title image of the Russian edition of the novel, “The Tree of Possibles,” by a French author, Bernard Werber in 2015. Not only that, Lyfe Jennings, an American R&B singer, chose the photo for the cover image of his 5^th album. Apart from that, an anti-smoking campaign advertisement Park directed for the Ministry of Health and Welfare captured the public attention. It visualized in dance movements by 26 ballet dancers the pain the brain and the lungs underwent the moment one smoked.