《Double Take - Nidomi》 - Eiko Tanaka ⽥中栄⼦ Solo ExhibitionPost date：2024-08-27
Updates：2024-08-27
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- Event Time
- 2024-09-07~2024-09-28Tue. - Sat. 11:00-18:30
- Event Location
- No. 286, Sec. 7, Chengde Rd, Beitou Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C
I usually work with photographic images as a starting point, crossing three media: collage, printmaking (lithography), and painting. This is because I want to explore the uncertain starting point that shakes my senses and determine the source and boundary of the discomfort that arises as a collage of photographs compressed into two dimensions. When creating a collage based on a photograph, I disassemble and rearrange the once-assembled pieces of colored paper. Compressing and fixing the colored surfaces of the paper with acrylic paint and a press, after removing the excess elements, is an act of "abstracting," or re-capturing the space (the world) itself in color and form.
"Double Take - Nidomi" will feature paintings and collages inspired by images from the Google Earth map application, which allows viewers to look at the earth from space and easily explore unknown places. When descending from space to a specific point on the ground and switching to Street View, a bug may occur in the app depending on the amount of information at that point. In particular, the momentary that appear when descending under bridges, underground passageways, and tunnels, "bugs" which cannot be spatially recognized in the 2D map from above, feel like the boundary between this world and the next to me.
The same "bugs" does not occur every time, and I repeat the descent many times in order to encounter that fleeting phenomenon again. To "Double Take"is the behavior of turning to look again for confirmation when something unexpected or strange strikes one. The work attempts to "look twice" at the moment when the strangely distorted "bugs" of the world seem as if they appear on the boundary between this world and the next.
In the future, as more detailed information is reflected and display functions are improved, the "bugs"may be resolved. They exist as momentary images, like bubbles that disappear in an instant, or like ghosts.
Eiko Tanaka
"Double Take - Nidomi" will feature paintings and collages inspired by images from the Google Earth map application, which allows viewers to look at the earth from space and easily explore unknown places. When descending from space to a specific point on the ground and switching to Street View, a bug may occur in the app depending on the amount of information at that point. In particular, the momentary that appear when descending under bridges, underground passageways, and tunnels, "bugs" which cannot be spatially recognized in the 2D map from above, feel like the boundary between this world and the next to me.
The same "bugs" does not occur every time, and I repeat the descent many times in order to encounter that fleeting phenomenon again. To "Double Take"is the behavior of turning to look again for confirmation when something unexpected or strange strikes one. The work attempts to "look twice" at the moment when the strangely distorted "bugs" of the world seem as if they appear on the boundary between this world and the next.
In the future, as more detailed information is reflected and display functions are improved, the "bugs"may be resolved. They exist as momentary images, like bubbles that disappear in an instant, or like ghosts.
Eiko Tanaka
