SENSOR_CODE
Period: 2018.5.18 (Fri.) – 2018.6.17 (Sun.)
Venue: Seen Fifteen, London
Open: Friday to Sunday 12:00 – 18:00
Supported by Arts Council Tokyo
Web: http://seenfifteen.com
Opening Party: 2018.5.18 (Fri.) 18:00 – 21:00
Video Projection for Peckham 24： 2018.5.18 (Fri.) 22:00 – 02:00
Press Release:
“Koyama is part of this prescient generation of artists working with photographic materials and ideas to conflate the imaging possibilities of digital technologies with the experimental spirit of the most vital periods of the medium’s history.” Charlotte Cotton*
Taisuke Koyama can still remember the exact date that he started working with photography, the day he bought his first digital camera on 18th October 2003. For fifteen years he has dedicated his artistic practice to an intense exploration into the evolution of the digital image. We’re delighted to welcome Taisuke Koyama to Seen Fifteen with a solo exhibition, opening as part of Peckham 24 Festival on Friday 18th May 2018.
Koyama trained in Biology and Environmental Sciences in Tokyo, and is a self-taught photographer. Bringing these two influences together into one thought, he has described his creative process as “observing with a microscope”. The seismic event of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 had a profound effect on Koyama’s practice and became a critical catalyst that shifted his focus towards the subject of the unpredictability of imagess:-
“Within the vast disaster area, the boundaries between the city and nature had been shattered right in front of my eyes. I was forced to think about the inevitable limitations of photography and how impossible it is to record all of actual reality”. Taisuke Koyama
For this new exhibition, SENSOR_CODE, Koyama will present abstract photographic works from four recent projects, which employ different experimental strategies using digital sensors. The reactions of light onto the sensors in digital cameras and scanners resolve into unique colours and patterns, which in turn creates Koyama’s own visual language. Releasing abstract photography from its heritage in materiality is an ongoing area of interest for the artist. So too is a paradoxical desire to design installations that become a physical experience. The works at Seen Fifteen will be presented as large inkjet prints that will be suspended from the ceiling in a maze of sculptural images for the viewer to journey around. In our contemporary world, where we are completely saturated by a never-ending stream of digitally transmitted images, the artist’s intention within the gallery space is to invoke a contradictory sensation. By dominating the room with large-scale prints he aims to force us to feel the images as well as look at them.
*Charlotte Cotton, from the essay for the photo-book Rainbow Variations, artbeat publishers, 2015
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SENSOR_CODE
会期：2018年5月18日（金）- 2018年6月17日（日）
会場：Seen Fifteen（ロンドン）
時間：金土日 12:00 – 18:00
助成：アーツカウンシル東京
Web：http://seenfifteen.com
オープニング・パーティ：2018年5月18日（金）18:00 – 21:00
Video Projection for Peckham 24：2018年5月18日（金）22:00 – 02:00
ロンドンのギャラリー「Seen Fifteen」にて、個展『SENSOR_CODE』を開催します。本展は、PHOTO LONDONに合わせて開催される現代写真フェスティバル「PECKHAM 24」のメインプログラムとして実施され、オープニング当日の深夜には映像作品『NONAGON PHOTON』の特別屋外上映もおこないます。