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Hiraku Project Vol. 16 Nozomi Suzuki 'The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope'
Pola Museum of Art
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Nozomi Suzuki
The Hiraku Project is an exhibition series that introduces artists who have received grants from the Pola Art Foundation in the past. For its 16th installment, the project features Nozomi Suzuki, an artist who uses the principles of photography to visualize the memories and traces of light that linger in everyday objects and old houses, creating installations through objects and images.
Suzuki, who majored in painting at university, began to teach herself photographic techniques. In 2012, she created works using the wooden-framed window glass of a 90-year-old traditional Japanese house that served as her studio. She photographed the scenery that would have been visible from the window and then imprinted these images onto the window glass itself, which had been coated with a light-sensitive emulsion. This process brought forth the mundane views once gazed upon by the former residents and the window itself, rendering them faint images on the well-worn glass. Suzuki endeavors to evoke and fixate on the "memory of objects" residing in such everyday items.
In 2019, Suzuki traveled to the UK, where she acquired various artifacts and visual devices such as ship windows, telescopes, and magnifying glasses, and investigated their histories. She transformed these items into works that hint at "collective memory," embedding images that reflect the advances in science and technology that shaped human visual experiences and modernization, as well as the shared senses and tastes of certain eras and societies.
The title of this exhibition refers to elements crucial to the development of painting and photography. "Telescope" symbolizes a scientific device that fulfills humanity's desire to see. By engaging deeply with the memories and traces these items hold, Suzuki's works offer us an opportunity to contemplate the primordial nature of photographic expression, the grand historical currents, and the fleeting time and vanishing landscapes lying within personal stories and collective history.
Suzuki, who majored in painting at university, began to teach herself photographic techniques. In 2012, she created works using the wooden-framed window glass of a 90-year-old traditional Japanese house that served as her studio. She photographed the scenery that would have been visible from the window and then imprinted these images onto the window glass itself, which had been coated with a light-sensitive emulsion. This process brought forth the mundane views once gazed upon by the former residents and the window itself, rendering them faint images on the well-worn glass. Suzuki endeavors to evoke and fixate on the "memory of objects" residing in such everyday items.
In 2019, Suzuki traveled to the UK, where she acquired various artifacts and visual devices such as ship windows, telescopes, and magnifying glasses, and investigated their histories. She transformed these items into works that hint at "collective memory," embedding images that reflect the advances in science and technology that shaped human visual experiences and modernization, as well as the shared senses and tastes of certain eras and societies.
The title of this exhibition refers to elements crucial to the development of painting and photography. "Telescope" symbolizes a scientific device that fulfills humanity's desire to see. By engaging deeply with the memories and traces these items hold, Suzuki's works offer us an opportunity to contemplate the primordial nature of photographic expression, the grand historical currents, and the fleeting time and vanishing landscapes lying within personal stories and collective history.
Schedule | Jun 8 (Sat) 2024-Dec 1 (Sun) 2024 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥2200, University and High School Students ¥1700, Junior High School Students and Under free, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion ¥1100. | ||||
| Website | https://www.polamuseum.or.jp/exhibition/hiraku-project-16/ | ||||
| Venue | Pola Museum of Art https://www.polamuseum.or.jp/english/ | ||||
| Location | 1285 Kozukayama Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa 250-0631 | ||||
| Access | From Gora Station on the Hakone Tozan line, take the Free Shuttle Bus. From Gora Station on the Hakone Tozan line, take the Sightseeing Shuttle bus and get off at Pola Museum of Art. | ||||
| Phone | 0460-84-2111 | ||||
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