What won Belgian artist and filmmaker Vincent Bal his 1.17 million Instagram followers? Shadows. More precisely, his whimsical illustrations are born from the quirky silhouettes cast by everyday objects. With just a few strokes of ink, he brings out the unexpected stories and characters tucked inside them. In his hands, hair shears become a suit-donning gentleman; a cheese slicer turns into a lightsaber wielded by Yoda; and dried chilis morph into a reveler dancing with arms flung skyward. In one drawing, even an ordinary pair of metal tongs gets its own comic twist, its shadow transformed into a taekwondo athlete shaking his ankle in pain after a brick-breaking attempt, accompanied by a Korean phrase that reads "It hurts a lot." While social media has long been Bal’s playground to share his inventive craft with tongue-in-cheek titles, the artist’s doodles stepped into the real world in 2022 with “The Art of Shadow,” his first-ever solo exhibition. The show drew more than 80,000 visitors as it traveled through Seoul, Daejeon and Busan. This month, Bal has returned to Museum 209 i