Ayano Sudo "Vita Machinicalis"

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Ayano Sudo

Ayano Sudo's photographs capture her subjects' desire for transformation and ideal image that transcends gender, and her works are somewhere between color manuscripts of girls' manga and photographs. In the early years of her career, she used digital processing to create patterns and other decorations, as well as rhinestones and glitter on the surface of her prints, to embody the world that Sudo and her subjects were seeking. After "Phantom" (2013), which featured missing girls, Sudo's work has evolved into a series that moves between virtual worlds and reality.

Vita Machinicalis explores the beauty that wavers between the virtual and the real, photographing flesh and blood people as if they were androids. In 2018, before the pandemic, Sudo felt the eeriness of a city where people had disappeared in the middle of the night and was inspired to create this work by imagining machines instead of people living in skyscrapers and futuristic buildings. A world where machines exist as if they were human beings may not be far off in the future. Currently, photo processing applications make people's faces look like dolls, while androids and CG technology dare to add wrinkles and moles in order to make them look lifelike. In this day and age, where the desire for reality intersects with the desire for virtual reality, Sudo's work shakes society's sense of what beauty and selfhood are.

This exhibition will be reconstructed with a series of new photographs.

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Artist Talk
Date & Time: Saturday, January 22, 19:00-20:00
Capacity: 15 people
Fee: 1000 yen (reservation required, tickets available online from 19:00 on January 7)
Please refer to the official website for details and registration.

Schedule

Jan 7 (Fri) 2022-Jan 30 (Sun) 2022