TAB Event - Mamoru Tsukada "Specter"

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At Tomio Koyama Gallery
Media: Photography

Mamoru Tsukada was born in Nagano prefecture in 1962. After studying photography in the U.S, he is currently based in Tokyo. He started his career as a photographer taking pictures of blind people. Blind people build their visual experience through their other senses and the image they create in their brain differs from our reality. Tsukada gets his artistic inspiration from working with them. He explores how an image functions, by making photographs that deviate from reality to arouse the unconsciousness.
In this exhibition "Specter", eight new works will be exhibited.
Tsukada said, "The new works have been created using a humorous and physical way, by putting masks over a camera lens. I use this technique in order to create an image of the inside and outside of masks at same time, in two dimensions. Front is back and back is front. This work is to reveal the 'optic nerve' rather than sight, which reflects and challenges how blind people recognize the world. As a continued ritual after 'Acephale' (2004) and 'Channeling' (2005), the 'Specter' is a physical challenge for the artist mediator."

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