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ACAVA,
1-15 Cremer Street, Shoreditch, London E2 8HD
Contemporary fine art in an artist-run gallery |
| Spatio-temporal
Phase Sep 18-28, 2002 Nobuko Hayashi | installation | space 2 |
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Currently
my work investigates the communication of information, and the impression
we get when we first encounter a physical object. I am interested in
the process of accumulation of the ideas, and how people interpret a
physical state and psychological effect. The initial encounter is very
important, because it is here that we start to learn about the internal
character and physical nature of things. We are very much surrounded by information, which you can easily get anytime, anywhere. With the information, you start to get an idea of what you are dealing with, the first step of the investigation. From the source of information a map, poster, photograph, and so on you can get a condensed clue of what you are actually going to investigate. When reading this material, you should consider how much you can rely on it and if you can gain access to the real substance. We often tend to rely on what you can see just in front of you. And we imagine the physical character of things in our mind's eye, setting up our expectation of what kind of things they could be and try to predict how to interact with them. By doing this, having a preconceived idea already, we can become impressed or even disappointed when we discover what the thing is really like. Even when we get to know it, people sometimes prefer the abstract representation, like the photograph or a map, because they do not have to deal with the real substance. When you go into a space or encounter an object, you start to investigate in three dimensions. When you look at something in 2D and 3D form, your impression will invariably be different. Furthermore, when you experience objects by touching or smelling, for example, you may experience an emotional response. |
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