In Drifting Objects by Jaehun Park, crystalline forms drift through a world without gravity. Their shadows shift, fracture, and reflect, as if the air itself responds to their motion. Each object carries an echo of reality: some reference current problems, conflicts, and disasters around the globe — from Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite and a jet engine to oil barrels, gas pipelines, police helmets, the speaker’s gavel of a national assembly, and other symbolic objects. They float without guidance, propelled by invisible forces and turbulent fields that mirror the unpredictable dynamics of our economy and geopolitics.
There are no people, only their traces. No central force, only a continual interplay of objects colliding, disappearing, illuminating, and reappearing. It is a portrait of humanity — not in its form, but in its influence, chaos, and fragility.