Keyword : Limitless Imagery
dal 3/10/2004 al 3/11/2004
Segnalato da
3/10/2004
Keyword : Limitless Imagery
Fotogalerie Wien, Wien
Mirror, mirror on the wall, where is the 'self' far and wide? - Peering intensively into the mirror, our perspective shifts, the assurance of our 'self' fades: what is to be seen, what remains hidden? The artists Midori Araki and Sissi Farassat transform the gallery into a mirror cabinet, into an inbetween of infinite imagination.
Midori Araki (J) / Sissi Farassat (A)
Preview: Monday, 4. October, 7 pm
This project is supported by: BKA-Kunst / MA 7-Kultur / Foto Leutner / Shiseido
Mirror, mirror on the wall, where is the 'self' far and wide?
Peering intensively into the mirror - our perspective shifts, the
assurance of our 'self' fades: what is to be seen, what remains hidden?
The artists Midori Araki and Sissi Farassat transform the FOTOGALERIE
WIEN into a mirror cabinet, into an inbetween of infinite imagination.
"Nothing is genuine, everything is permitted." (Midori Araki)
Midori Araki , co-foundress of gap magazine, considers space as a
construct confined from all sides too small - she kidnaps us into a "
Garden of Dreams": a mirror cabinet of self reflection, paired with
projections of stroboscope light and texts, pictures and sound, which
open even the doors to the innermost areas of childhood and memory and
lets us enter....
On the other hand, for Sissi Farassat , editor of sioseh, the "smallest
photo magazine of the world ", the two-dimensionality of photography and
the associated absence of tactile quality is not enough. She adapts
photographs - her own or found footage material - with needle and thread
and scatters these with glittering, light-reflecting sequin. Just as the
gold of icon art attempts to convey the intensity of a person's soul,
Sissi Farassat translates and extends this search for the space behind
the picture with her sequin....
BIOGRAPHIES
Midori Araki (J): *1966, lives and works in Tokyo; 1997 studying at Tama Art University in Tokyo, Graphic Design Department; chief editor for gap – magazine; since 1999 going into installation, sculpture and sound.
Opening hours: Tue - Fri 2 - 7 pm, Sat 10 am - 2 pm
FOTOGALERIE WIEN A-1090 Vienna, Währinger Straße 59