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Shu Yonezawa "Skin of the Sea, Bone of the Absence"
SNOW Contemporary 
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Shu Yonezawa
This is the first solo exhibition of Shu Yonezawa, an up-and-coming young artist who is also an animator. He creates works that explore the physicality of characters in digital animation, as well as the physicality and emotions of real-world creatures, including the atmosphere in which characters live.
Yonezawa explores the texture of characters in digital animation, akin to sticking to the display, the ghostly physicality that animators leave behind when drawing animation digitally, and the afterimages through various media such as video, flat works, and installations. In Yonezawa's works, there is a collision between the desire to create "immortal creatures" in digital animation and the strong desire to establish digital animation as "living beings".
The "Ghost Screenshot" series, which focuses on the technique of afterimage expression in animation, was born from the question of what death means in animation. Afterimage expression is a technique used to bring animation to life, but the contradiction referred to as "ghost" evokes death, indicating that the presence of dead frames gives life to objects in the animation and that the existence of ghost frames itself leads to developments into the future. This connects to fundamental questions about the mysterious cycle of life and death for the artist himself.
Yonezawa hopes to provide a modest opportunity for someone feeling the difficulty of living in today's chaotic society to realize what is truly important by constructing his own world of works, capturing the light and atmosphere around the animation characters as if scooping them up.
The exhibition "Skin of the Sea, Bones of the Absent" is scheduled to consist of Yonezawa's new video works and flat works.
Yonezawa explores the texture of characters in digital animation, akin to sticking to the display, the ghostly physicality that animators leave behind when drawing animation digitally, and the afterimages through various media such as video, flat works, and installations. In Yonezawa's works, there is a collision between the desire to create "immortal creatures" in digital animation and the strong desire to establish digital animation as "living beings".
The "Ghost Screenshot" series, which focuses on the technique of afterimage expression in animation, was born from the question of what death means in animation. Afterimage expression is a technique used to bring animation to life, but the contradiction referred to as "ghost" evokes death, indicating that the presence of dead frames gives life to objects in the animation and that the existence of ghost frames itself leads to developments into the future. This connects to fundamental questions about the mysterious cycle of life and death for the artist himself.
Yonezawa hopes to provide a modest opportunity for someone feeling the difficulty of living in today's chaotic society to realize what is truly important by constructing his own world of works, capturing the light and atmosphere around the animation characters as if scooping them up.
The exhibition "Skin of the Sea, Bones of the Absent" is scheduled to consist of Yonezawa's new video works and flat works.
Schedule | Feb 22 (Thu) 2024-Mar 30 (Sat) 2024 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Feb 22 (Thu) 2024 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | SNOW Contemporary http://www.snowcontemporary.com/en/  | ||||
| Location | 404 Hayano Bldg., 2-13-12 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031 | ||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from exit 2 at Roppongi Station on the Toei Oedo or Hibiya line, 9 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line, 10 minute walk from exit 4 at Hiroo Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6427-2511 | ||||
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