Guest Room:
Joshua Chuang & Barney Kulok

Guest Room aims to inspire collaboration and creative exchange. In this edition, Gagosian Director of Photography Joshua Chuang, partners with American artist and photographer Barney Kulok. Together, they explored the theme "Close Call".

“A ‘close call’ is commonly understood as a narrow escape, often interchangeable with the term ‘near miss.’ For our open call, we’re expanding this definition by breaking it into its parts: in photography, a close-up denotes the physical proximity between lens and subject. A ‘call’ might be a cry, a command, or a form of communication, something that designates, demands, or directs. To look closely through a camera is, in itself, a call: an invitation to the viewer to pay attention. To say, ‘Look, this matters.’”