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From Silence Woven by the Void’s Code, Realms Take Shape
Kurenboh Chohouin Buddhist Temple Gallery
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Artists
Thomas Ruff, Yuki Tawada, Daisuke Yokota, Asano Tsutsumi
It has been blindly believed that photography, with its irreversible process of capturing light, mimics the process of perception of the physical world, making the real world two-dimensional and thus “truthful” to it. Even though the photographic process has changed from analog to digital, that is, from a two-dimensional image inscribed on film to a cluster of discrete pixels, its truthfulness has been continuously inherited.
Vilém Flusser, however, considered the emergence of photography as an important turning point for humanity, next to the invention of language and printing, as the third stage of cultural development in which the world is abstracted and understood through computational thinking. The abstraction of the world through photography is a zero-dimensional world made possible by computational thinking. It is not the outside world indicated, but the concept that transforms the outside world, that is, the zero dimension (the world of nothingness).
Some artists are aware of this and realize that what they are dealing with is a “Void’s Code”. As stories and legends once were, today, the real world is altered and created anew by “Void’s Code” such as algorithms and programs.
Each artist shown in this exhibition, “From Silence Woven by the Void’s Code, Realms Take Shape,” constructs or touches a new world through the “the Void’s Code” of the photographic technique. These works reveal that what is represented by photography is no longer only an entity tied to reality, and that photography no longer directly represents reality or truth, but rather projects meaning from nothingness, and works on nothingness as it imparts meaning.
Vilém Flusser, however, considered the emergence of photography as an important turning point for humanity, next to the invention of language and printing, as the third stage of cultural development in which the world is abstracted and understood through computational thinking. The abstraction of the world through photography is a zero-dimensional world made possible by computational thinking. It is not the outside world indicated, but the concept that transforms the outside world, that is, the zero dimension (the world of nothingness).
Some artists are aware of this and realize that what they are dealing with is a “Void’s Code”. As stories and legends once were, today, the real world is altered and created anew by “Void’s Code” such as algorithms and programs.
Each artist shown in this exhibition, “From Silence Woven by the Void’s Code, Realms Take Shape,” constructs or touches a new world through the “the Void’s Code” of the photographic technique. These works reveal that what is represented by photography is no longer only an entity tied to reality, and that photography no longer directly represents reality or truth, but rather projects meaning from nothingness, and works on nothingness as it imparts meaning.
Schedule | Nov 8 (Wed) 2023-Dec 8 (Fri) 2023 Reservation RequiredOpening Hours Information
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| Fee | Admission fee is a small donation. | ||||
| Venue | Kurenboh Chohouin Buddhist Temple Gallery http://www.kurenboh.com/en/top.html  | ||||
| Location | Chohouin Buddhist Temple, 4-17-14 Kuramae, Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0051 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit A3 at Kuramae Station on the Toei Asakusa line, 5 minute walk from exit A5 at Kuramae Station on the Toei Oedo line. | ||||
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