If pain has a forecast
01
김태형 큐레이터
Curator Yoon, the director is looking for you.
윤여주
Oh, I see.
윤여주
Director, I heard you found it.
김남준 관장
Oh, now it's time to start planning the exhibition for next year.
윤여주
Oh, it's already planned.
김남준 관장
Do you have any writers in mind?
윤여주
There is, but... I don't know if you'll accept it.
김남준 관장
Okay, let's go ahead and do it.
윤여주
yes.
The author I had in mind was the author who had been my longtime comfort. He hadn't responded to my DM yet, and he hadn't even read it before. I was so worried, wondering if something was really going on.
김태형 큐레이터
Curator Yoon!
윤여주
Oh, Curator Kim, welcome. We have to start planning the exhibition that will be held in a year.
김태형 큐레이터
Do you have any writers in mind?
윤여주
uh?
김태형 큐레이터
If there's an artist you're attracted to, you'll rush like this.
윤여주
Ah... Did I do that? Anyway, call Assi and come to the conference room quickly. I'm running out of time.
김태형 큐레이터
all right.
윤여주
The theme of the next exhibition is landscape, and the artist is unknown. Not utterly unknown, but also truly nameless.
김태형 큐레이터
yes?
어시 큐레이터
You're exhibiting an unknown artist here?
윤여주
I guarantee your skills. But I don't even know your name yet, and the only way to contact you is through DM, and I haven't heard from you since. I'll try contacting you again, and if that doesn't work... I'll reconsider.
김태형 큐레이터
But, Curator... will the director accept it?
윤여주
We've got to make it work somehow. I'll give you my ID, so search for it. I've been following this writer for over 10 years. He's the best when it comes to landscapes.
김태형 큐레이터
I acknowledge your discerning eye, curator. Every exhibition you've worked on has been a disaster.
윤여주
Anyway, I'll contact you somehow and let you know.
김태형 큐레이터
Yes, we will also search more about the author.
I acknowledge my discerning eye. Every exhibition I've organized by an artist I've worked on so far has been a huge success. Even though I don't know their names anymore and they're not incredibly famous, I can guarantee that any exhibition I can put on will be a success.
윤여주
"Author, I'm Yoon Yeo-ju, a longtime fan and current senior curator at the Utteo Art Museum. Although I can't reach you right now, I'm contacting you to request your participation in next year's exhibition.
윤여주
As a fan of your work for over ten years, and now as a curator, I greatly admire and respect you. I sincerely hope you accept. I look forward to your response, author.
There was a high chance I wouldn't get a response this time either, but I still went for it. Since the theme of this exhibition was landscape, I absolutely didn't want to miss the artist.
‘Tiring-’
윤여주
come!!!
A moment later, I received a DM notification. It was from the author. I was so shocked I almost screamed. It was the reply I'd been waiting for, and I was so happy it arrived at such a crucial moment.
김태형 큐레이터
Curator Yoon! What's going on?!
윤여주
Here it comes, here it comes! The author's answer!
김태형 큐레이터
Really? What are you saying?
윤여주
for a moment.
"Hello. First of all, thank you so much for the exhibition offer. However, I have to decline. I'm not in a position to hold an exhibition right now, so I'm truly grateful for the offer, and I apologize."
윤여주
You're saying you'll refuse?
김태형 큐레이터
yes···?
윤여주
Just wait.
윤여주
"Then, could we perhaps meet? I know it might be rude, but I really want to hold your exhibition. If we meet and talk, and you decline, I'd be happy to accept it then."
김태형 큐레이터
Curator Yoon... Is this okay?
윤여주
I know it's rude, but I have to do this, absolutely.
"Okay. I think it would be better if I met you and told you."
윤여주
"Well, if it's alright with you, author, I'll come to your studio. Just give me the address."
윤여주
Success. As expected, the author has a good heart.
김태형 큐레이터
Then, Curator Yoon, will you be going alone tomorrow?
윤여주
Yeah, I think it'd be better for me to go alone. I'll get accepted somehow, so I'm getting ready.
김태형 큐레이터
Yes, if the manager comes tomorrow, can I say he went to the meeting?
윤여주
Yeah, do that.
[The next day, in front of the writer's studio]
Ding-dong
윤여주
Author, I am curator Yoon Yeo-ju!
Then the door opened. But something struck me as strange as I walked along today. The author's studio was very close to my house, and I wondered if that's why he often visited that mountain. It was so fascinating. It was so close, yet I hadn't found it before.
윤여주
Hello, author...
김석진
Hello, I'm sorry for the long journey. I apologize for the late greeting. My name is Kim Seok-jin.
윤여주
senior?
김석진
Do you know me?
I was truly embarrassed. My childhood crush, Kim Seok-jin, was the writer I'd been searching for so desperately. He'd been nowhere to be found, and now I was face to face with him. But what was even more disconcerting was that he didn't remember me. Was it because it'd been so long?
윤여주
Writer: No, senior, don't you remember me? When we were in high school, you held an umbrella for me on a rainy day.
김석진
...Oh, I'm sorry. Actually, I think the reason I'm refusing the exhibition is related, so I'll explain it first.
윤여주
yes···?
김석진
Something happened. I had an accident 10 years ago that left me with prosopagnosia.
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