casting #133 2013

silver spray paint on cutout from museum catalogues, h210 x w220mm

casting #312 2014

silver spray paint on cutout from museum catalogues, h295 x w234mm

casting #053 2010

silver spray paint on cutout from museum catalogues, h205 x w210mm

casting 2013

installation view at DRAWING NOW PARIS, Carrousel du Louvre (Paris), 2013

casting 2013

installation view at NISSAN ART AWARD, BankART Studio NYK (Kanagawa, Japan), 2013, photo by Keizo Kioku

casting 2015

installation view at ACAC (Aomori, Japan), 2015, photo by Kuniya Oyamada

casting 2015

installation view at Museum of Architecture (Wrocław, Poland), 2015

“casting”(2010-) is a series that involves making stencils by cutting around the outlines of artifacts in photographs taken from the pages of museum catalogues acquired from around the world. The artist then uses the stencils with silver spray on the printed page, deleting the memory of each object to leave just an outline and a shadow where once an artifact had been. As a result, the artifact reappears with the look of an unknown object having a silver sheen and seeming to be three-dimensional. The process of bringing into existence a new image by manipulating the traces of something to reverse its shape—taking it from positive to negative and back again—underlies both the process of casting using metal and the processing of developing photographs.

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