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Kensuke Koike + Thomas Sauvin “No More No Less”
IMA Gallery
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Kensuke Koike, Thomas Sauvin
In 2015, French artist Thomas Sauvin acquired an album produced in the early 1980s by an unknown Shanghai University photography student. The album comprises original negatives, silver prints, manuscript comments from an anonymous professor, and shows the student’s diligence in mastering the rules applying to the conventional portrait. This volume was given a second life through the expert hands of Kensuke Koike, a Japanese artist based in Venice whose practice combines collage and found photography.
The series, “No More, No Less”, born from the encounter between Koike and Sauvin, includes new silver prints made from the album’s original negatives. These prints were then submitted to Koike’s sharp imagination, who, with a simple blade and adhesive tape, deconstructs and reinvents the images. However, these purely manual interventions all respect one single formal rule: nothing is removed, nothing is added, “No More, No Less”. In such a context that blends freedom and constraint, Koike and Sauvin meticulously explore the possibilities of an image only made up of itself.
The series, “No More, No Less”, born from the encounter between Koike and Sauvin, includes new silver prints made from the album’s original negatives. These prints were then submitted to Koike’s sharp imagination, who, with a simple blade and adhesive tape, deconstructs and reinvents the images. However, these purely manual interventions all respect one single formal rule: nothing is removed, nothing is added, “No More, No Less”. In such a context that blends freedom and constraint, Koike and Sauvin meticulously explore the possibilities of an image only made up of itself.
Schedule | Feb 13 (Thu) 2020-Mar 21 (Sat) 2020 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Feb 13 (Thu) 2020 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://imaonline.jp/en/exhibition/no-more-no-less | ||||
| Venue | IMA Gallery https://imaonline.jp/en/imagallery | ||||
| Location | 1F T33 Bldg., 2-2-43 Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from the Central exit of Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail line, 2 minute walk from exit B at Tennozu Isle Station on the Rinkai line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3740-0303 | ||||
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