Through an Open Window: Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA @ YBCA
Join YBCA for this series of afternoon screenings inspired by GaHee Park’s exhibition Behind the Curtain. Enjoy the films, themed snacks, and free gallery admission—all included with your ticket!
Co-curated by filmmaker Michael Vass and artist GaHee Park, Through an Open Window offers a highly personal survey of cinematic inspirations, as well as a kind of funhouse mirror reflecting various themes and motifs found in the exhibition GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain.
Some of the films included are direct influences on Park’s paintings, while others provide a more general cinematic parallel to her aesthetic universe, echoing core elements of her practice: layered stories and nested narratives; fantasy and dream sequences; social rituals and taboos; doppelgangers and mistaken identities; voyeurism and theatricality; personae and performance; natural splendour and cocktail charm.
Ranging from silent films to recent releases and spanning several genres and countries of origin, the films featured in Through an Open Window are linked by their psychological sophistication and formal complexity, with a particular focus on the suggestive ambiguities that emerge from the tensions between narrative and pictorial space, which Park explores so memorably in her work.
Screening Room, YBCA
Tickets: $15
Ticket includes the film, themed snacks—while supplies last—and gallery admission.