Mamoru Tsukada
20 Feb - 21 Mar 2009
MAMORU TSUKADA
Tsukada's works, where inspiration taken from encountering subjects and well- considered ideas meet, imply many words behind them. They reach to the unconsciousness of viewers through the "gap" between photography as the transparent medium and difference human beings create. He started his career as a photographer taking pictures of blind people. Who are blind build visual experience through senses other that sight and the image they create in their brain deviates from space and time in reality, because of their blindness. He continues exploring how the image functions, by making photographs that deviate from reality to arouse the unconsciousness.
"The act of creating is to seek, recognize, and attain the uniqueness of the subject. This pursuit is always haunted by a fear of failure associated with these empathies, similar to religious devotion or a love affair." (by the artist's statement for Cave Painting)
Tsukada's works, where inspiration taken from encountering subjects and well- considered ideas meet, imply many words behind them. They reach to the unconsciousness of viewers through the "gap" between photography as the transparent medium and difference human beings create. He started his career as a photographer taking pictures of blind people. Who are blind build visual experience through senses other that sight and the image they create in their brain deviates from space and time in reality, because of their blindness. He continues exploring how the image functions, by making photographs that deviate from reality to arouse the unconsciousness.
"The act of creating is to seek, recognize, and attain the uniqueness of the subject. This pursuit is always haunted by a fear of failure associated with these empathies, similar to religious devotion or a love affair." (by the artist's statement for Cave Painting)