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[Image: Yutaka Nozawa "≠ 鳥 3" (2017) gelatin silver print, acrylic mounting 13×18cm]

Yutaka Nozawa “≠ - not equal -“

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Yutaka Nozawa

The artwork of Yutaka Nozawa stages unique, humorous scenes by adding a subtle touch to ordinary occurrences that are easily overlooked. His work creates a minimal space where personal sense of time is mystified by evoking the fragments of one’s distant yet familiar memories through video that is also the record of the artist’s own memory. Nozawa’s artwork is strewn with small, minor surprises such as when one happens to look at a clock and notice it pointing to 12:34. The experience of surprise suggests the possibility of the viewer spontaneously discovering a variety of different rules within his artwork. These discoveries sometimes surpass the artist’s intention and are connected to individual memories touched through the artwork.

The title of this exhibition “≠ (not equal)” is not only inspired by the work “≠ Bird 3”(2017), one of the pieces exhibited here, but also it symbolizes Nozawa’s overall practice. In his artwork, the same motifs are employed in a repetitive manner. For example, the acrylic plate as a frame, and the lines of an acrylic plate within a photographic artwork, are different but part of the same existence; therefore, it is now difficult to recognize the acrylic frame simply as a frame for the artwork. Likewise, in the artwork “cloth” (2014), the motif itself serves as a screen on which the video artwork is projected. Through a complicated arrangement of elements such as two-dimensional expression based on a record of reality, three-dimensional installation space, and manipulation of the flow of time, Nozawa’s artwork blurs the borders between artwork/space/viewer and invites us to a world deviating a little from the ordinary.

Schedule

May 21 (Sun) 2017-Jun 18 (Sun) 2017