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KANA UEDA |
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16th(tue)---27th(sat) Apr.2024 |
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Closed on Sunday |
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11:00---18:00 |
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The last day until 17:00 |
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Illusion
series
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Instagram previews a blurry image while the post is loading. A
transparent circle appears in the center, and for a short
period of time until the loading is complete, a blurred
neutral image with no ties to a certain time or place, floats
on the screen arousing the viewer’s imagination. |
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Having noticed this phenomenon at crowded stations or whenever
I reached my data limit, I started to work on this series in
the attempt to capture the illusionary images, which are
posted and consumed on a daily basis, and to fixate them as
prints. |
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For my latest works, I blurred the outlines of the elements
that make up the images, and further abstracted them.
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When screenprinting, these blurry images are converted into
dots, and in doing so, the images become even more ambiguous. |
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We can actually see more when we cannot see clearly.
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Like a Rorschach test, these works reflect the viewer, just
like a mirror. |
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(sky) series
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Cyanotypes is a photographic technique also known as
sun-printing or blueprinting, as it can print images in blue
with UV light. |
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During the making of my cyanotypes, I was troubled by rainy
weather. Checking the weather forecast became a daily
routine.
Each time I looked at the bright blue test prints I
had made in the past, a sunny sky would come across my mind. |
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Gradually, I felt as if the act of waiting and imagining a
blue sky was an integral process of making cyanotypes, so I
decided to use this technique to create a series of imaginary
skies. |
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I used copyright-free photographs found on the Internet,
unrelated to skies and cut out parts of them to create
negatives.
The negatives were then set on paper coated with
cyanotype chemicals and exposed.
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When converted to blue, the images become detached from their
original context and are transformed into blue skies.
Images of geysers, X-ray photos from mammography, or light
shining on children’s playgrounds emerged as the idealized
skies I had longed for during process. |
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Casting light can be a means to evoke the absent. |
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上田佳奈｜KANA UEDA |
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