For LOOP Barcelona 2026, Bradwolff & Partners presents Shape of Wind and Fire (2026), a new video work by Jaehun Park. Using advanced 3D simulation, Park explores the boundary between imagination and reality, power and vulnerability, construction and collapse.
The work takes its starting point from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, in which windmills are mistaken for giants. Park revisits this familiar image and places it in a contemporary context. In Shape of Wind and Fire, a monumental windmill is engulfed in flames. Fire spreads across its structure, smoke rises, and the structure slowly transforms before the viewer’s eyes. What appears stable becomes unstable.
The windmill carries a dual meaning. It refers to the Spanish landscape and Cervantes’ literary imagination, but also to the Netherlands, where the windmill is closely associated with technology, the shaping of the landscape and the control of natural forces. In Park’s work, these meanings come together and are placed under pressure. The burning windmill becomes an image of systems that promise stability and progress, yet prove vulnerable.
Shape of Wind and Fire forms the starting point of the presentation and is shown alongside a selection of other video and simulation works. Together, the works reveal how Park uses digital technology to bring historical images back into motion and explore the boundary between reality and imagination.