Cho Gi-Seok: The Coexistence of Imperfection

A filament of light cuts across gleaming skin, uncanny flowers, surfaces that seem to breathe: Cho Gi-Seok stages imperfection as creative energy, not defect. His “New Asian” lexicon fuses traditional symbols, technology and a saturated aesthetic that pushes beyond classical restraint without losing its inner cadence. Four key series interlace throughout the show. Flower Study probes the fragile alliance between body and botany, a shared nervous system of petals and pores. Bad Dream turns the chaos of the subconscious into visual theater, where the uncanny becomes a compositional impulse. Love & Hate confronts the coexistence of emotions - the short circuit between attraction and refusal as the engine of form and color. These Days looks to the digital present - humanity, nature, and machines mirroring one another in landscapes that seem like simulations yet vibrate with authenticity. Trained as a graphic designer and self-taught in photography since 2016, Cho has built an imagery that speaks to global youth culture without captions - pictures populated by ancient icons and futuristic interfaces, from which a threshold phrase emerges - imperfection as the truest state of being. His photographs, at once spiritual and contemporary, resist the visual fatigue of the scroll era, inviting a rare gesture - to pause, linger in the crack, and recognize strength in vulnerability. This is not a catalog of flaws, but an invitation to reconciliation - with the present moment, and with ourselves.