About "Hole" This work is made by stop motion animation. A monitor installed into the small hole. From the hole, you may peek people eating and cooking. It is ordinaries of life for us. This work idea is based on "mement mori" This Latin phrase means, "Remember you will die". This is the same concept described in the Bible, Isaiah 22:13, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die". I present a contemporary treatment "mement mori" into a small hole.
About "SCOPOPHILIA" "SCOPOPHILIA" is a semi-three-dimensional work, using original silkscreen techniques, which consists in a combination of photographs of bodies of symbolic use and Western religious icons. I am considering to develop the production and the representation of the images, and the idea behind the immanent mechanism of photography and decoration of work. This work consists of a combination of photographs of bodies used symbolic ally and Western religious icons, “the image of truth” patterns from the St. Veronica’s Veil. On the opposite side of the stack, decorative printed patterns offer visual pleasure akin “the image of truth” patterns from the St. Veronica’s Veil. A glimpse of these images can be caught within the deformed ink layers. Hence the work is titled SCOPOPHILIA, from Latin “love of looking”, is deriving pleasure from looking.
Presently, I am trying to address the issue of contemporary “reality” by questioning the so-called “transparency” of photographs which show the viewer a “complete” reality. To develop a photograph consists of working with light and shadow, something which can be interpreted as a “virtual image”. It can be considered as capturing the surface of a “virtual image”. But we do not doubt the virtual images in front of us, but accept these as “reality”. Although to me it seems as if the symbols are labeling reality. Through revealing only slices of photographs I am interested in showing the symbolic nature through photographs.
Aya Imamura is a visual artist working with silkscreen, sculpture using design skill, video installation. Her work are based on conceptual research of photograph theories. She currently works internationally; Christian icon research, photograph, A research of a difference visual literacy between foreign nations, A borderline between 2D and 3D in the media.
Aya Imamura has been artist-in-residence at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen(Germany), The Jyväskylä Art Museum (Finland), Artist Residence project "The Old School"”, Gorna Lipnitsa (Bulgaria). She is chose as a fellow of Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow(Germany) from October till 30th December 2012.
About "Hole" This work is made by stop motion animation. A monitor installed into the small hole. From the hole, you may peek people eating and cooking. It is ordinaries of life for us. This work idea is based on "mement mori" This Latin phrase means, "Remember you will die". This is the same concept described in the Bible, Isaiah 22:13, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die". I present a contemporary treatment "mement mori" into a small hole.
About "SCOPOPHILIA" "SCOPOPHILIA" is a semi-three-dimensional work, using original silkscreen techniques, which consists in a combination of photographs of bodies of symbolic use and Western religious icons. I am considering to develop the production and the representation of the images, and the idea behind the immanent mechanism of photography and decoration of work. This work consists of a combination of photographs of bodies used symbolic ally and Western religious icons, “the image of truth” patterns from the St. Veronica’s Veil. On the opposite side of the stack, decorative printed patterns offer visual pleasure akin “the image of truth” patterns from the St. Veronica’s Veil. A glimpse of these images can be caught within the deformed ink layers. Hence the work is titled SCOPOPHILIA, from Latin “love of looking”, is deriving pleasure from looking.
Presently, I am trying to address the issue of contemporary “reality” by questioning the so-called “transparency” of photographs which show the viewer a “complete” reality. To develop a photograph consists of working with light and shadow, something which can be interpreted as a “virtual image”. It can be considered as capturing the surface of a “virtual image”. But we do not doubt the virtual images in front of us, but accept these as “reality”. Although to me it seems as if the symbols are labeling reality. Through revealing only slices of photographs I am interested in showing the symbolic nature through photographs.
Aya Imamura is a visual artist working with silkscreen, sculpture using design skill, video installation. Her work are based on conceptual research of photograph theories. She currently works internationally; Christian icon research, photograph, A research of a difference visual literacy between foreign nations, A borderline between 2D and 3D in the media.
Aya Imamura has been artist-in-residence at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen(Germany), The Jyväskylä Art Museum (Finland), Artist Residence project "The Old School"”, Gorna Lipnitsa (Bulgaria). She is chose as a fellow of Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow(Germany) from October till 30th December 2012.