Shunnosuke Imoto

Water ver.1,「⽔ver.1」

Photography is a medium that captures images through light reflected from objects on film or digital sensors. This technology allows for high-precision visual representations that can appear extremely realistic. Photography has the ability to document the world and capture fleeting moments in an immediate way. However, it is crucial to consider that photography is always a selection and interpretation of reality. The photographer chooses what to include in the image, how to compose the scene, what message to communicate, and what atmosphere to create The choice of angle, lighting, framing, and other technical factors affects the perception and final representation of the image In this sense, photography can be regarded as a form of subjective visual storytelling, in which the photographer interprets and represents reality through his or her own artistic point of view and intentions. Although a photograph may appear to be an accurate reproduction of reality, it is important to remember that it always reflects an individual perspective and may be subject to manipulation or interpretation. Yet photography, most of the time, represents something static. If we think about it, static is not part of our world and is not contemplated. Everything moves and everything is constantly changing. Water in rivers, clouds in the sky, tree branches and even tectonic plates move. Fast and rapid rhythms, others slow but continuous and inexorable The very concept of time, created by us humans for humans, is based on movement, the changing of things and the changes that occur in every second, every year and every century Photography cannot portray this. It reproduces the single detail of reality, which will remain fixed forever in the static image. In contrast, art with its expressive capacity has the ability to narrate time and movement, inserting mutations and transformations into the still image. Although painting is also a static medium, what is represented through it can have endless expressive possibilities. Such is the case with "Someday," a work with clear, broad and earthy brushstrokes. The representation is literally liquid. There is color dripping, there is pigment spread through broad veils that overlap one another, there is the feeling that what we are looking at corresponds to multiple moments of reality, as if time were being depicted in the work Ta is used to taking photographs, but his art goes far beyond the faithful reproduction of reality His artistic perception produces works that smell of lived time, of existences anchored in the slow and inexorable movement of nature, of color that becomes form and then becomes an ethereal stain. Everything is uncertain, and that is precisely the beauty of it. The artist creates ethereal moments where more detailed elements flank evanescent guttural backdrops within which one loses all contact with mere reality to sink into the uncertainty of vision. The true vision of the world in motion is dictated by broad brushstrokes overlapping one another causing in the viewer a sense of destabilization dictated by the uncertainty of what he is observing The beauty of Ta's works lies precisely in this: the representation of an atypical world that, in reality, is the condensation of all movement, all the kinetic energy that moves our existences.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti