Sungwon Mun Exhibition
City and Void (都市と余白)
May 16 (Fri) – May 23 (Fri), 2025
10:00–18:00 (until 17:00 on Sat & Sun)
Gallery, B1F, Building 1, Tama Art University Kaminoge Campus
3-15-34 Kaminoge, Setagaya, Tokyo 158-0093
5-minute walk from Kaminoge Station (Tokyu Oimachi Line)
The city flows restlessly—overflowing, ever-changing.
Giant buildings, metal railings, traffic lights and wires, platforms and staircases, streetlights and shadows intersect in this dense space.
In such places, we pass by countless things without even noticing.
And yet, within that flow, there is stillness. There is balance.
I stop against the current and press the shutter.
Structural forms drawn by light and shadow.
Borders where the artificial touches the natural.
Pockets of emptiness that appear by chance within the city’s order.
I wanted to record what remains unchanged—and what becomes momentarily still—in a city that never stops changing.
This exhibition is a quiet story about how we look at the city.
It’s an attempt to find meaning in scenes we often overlook,
to capture something that breathes quietly in the gaps.
To understand why warmth can exist in the coldest corners,
and to trace the subtle balance that naturally arises from complexity.
My photographs deal with order, chaos, stillness, motion, warmth, coldness, harmony, conflict, nature, humanity, restraint, noise, change, continuity, familiarity, strangeness, life, trace, light, shadow, independence, relationship—and void.
All of these exist in the city.
And if, after seeing this exhibition, your view of the city shifts even slightly—then I’ll be glad.
In an age when anyone can take photos at any time, I still carry a heavy, bulky camera into the streets.
I wonder what that act means now.
Maybe holding a camera means holding a responsibility to record a fragment of our time.
Maybe this exhibition, too, will become a part of a social archive for the future.
I selected these images from among the roughly 50,000 photos I’ve taken since first picking up a camera—while moving between Tokyo and Seoul, entering university, and meeting new people.
The city changes. I change. And my photos change too.
Still, there are landscapes I can’t ignore.
Scenes I must stop and look at.
And so, I will keep photographing.
Date:
2025
Type:
Exhibition, Graphic Design
City and Void
Sungwon Mun Exhibition
City and Void (都市と余白)
May 16 (Fri) – May 23 (Fri), 2025
10:00–18:00 (until 17:00 on Sat & Sun)
Gallery, B1F, Building 1, Tama Art University Kaminoge Campus
3-15-34 Kaminoge, Setagaya, Tokyo 158-0093
5-minute walk from Kaminoge Station (Tokyu Oimachi Line)
The city flows restlessly—overflowing, ever-changing.
Giant buildings, metal railings, traffic lights and wires, platforms and staircases, streetlights and shadows intersect in this dense space.
In such places, we pass by countless things without even noticing.
And yet, within that flow, there is stillness. There is balance.
I stop against the current and press the shutter.
Structural forms drawn by light and shadow.
Borders where the artificial touches the natural.
Pockets of emptiness that appear by chance within the city’s order.
I wanted to record what remains unchanged—and what becomes momentarily still—in a city that never stops changing.
This exhibition is a quiet story about how we look at the city.
It’s an attempt to find meaning in scenes we often overlook,
to capture something that breathes quietly in the gaps.
To understand why warmth can exist in the coldest corners,
and to trace the subtle balance that naturally arises from complexity.
My photographs deal with order, chaos, stillness, motion, warmth, coldness, harmony, conflict, nature, humanity, restraint, noise, change, continuity, familiarity, strangeness, life, trace, light, shadow, independence, relationship—and void.
All of these exist in the city.
And if, after seeing this exhibition, your view of the city shifts even slightly—then I’ll be glad.
In an age when anyone can take photos at any time, I still carry a heavy, bulky camera into the streets.
I wonder what that act means now.
Maybe holding a camera means holding a responsibility to record a fragment of our time.
Maybe this exhibition, too, will become a part of a social archive for the future.
I selected these images from among the roughly 50,000 photos I’ve taken since first picking up a camera—while moving between Tokyo and Seoul, entering university, and meeting new people.
The city changes. I change. And my photos change too.
Still, there are landscapes I can’t ignore.
Scenes I must stop and look at.
And so, I will keep photographing.
Date:
2025
Type:
Exhibition, Graphic Design
Exhibition, Graphic Design
City and Void
