Exhibition

Self-portrait with builders

Exhibition by Shunji Hori at Mediamatic

9 Sep 2005 – 9 Oct 2005
Mediamatic Post CSMediamatic Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam
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Oosterdokskade 5Amsterdam,

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Mediamatic Foundation, +31206389901, www.mediamatic.net/Mediamatic Foundation

In his six larger than life photographs Shunji Hori created a binary super reality that is fantasy, idealism and reality at the same time.

Self-portrait with builders, Shunji Hori-

Mediamatic Exhibition

With:

Mateusz Herczka, Shunji Hori

Herczka

Mediamatic started the new season with two exhibitions. A series of photographs by Shunji Hori and a video installation by Mateusz Herczka.

Shunji Hori - Self Portrait with Builders

In the experiments of artist Shunji Hori (NL/JP 1967) art, science and philosophy fuse into an alternative vision of the real. Although these fields in their specific ways alter the way we see and interact with reality it is through the development of certain digital technologies that it becomes possible to really connect them.

Self-portrait with builders, Shunji Hori

At Mediamatic’s Groundfloor Hori showed a series of very detailed portraits of builders, reminiscent of gigantic passport or I.D. photos. But this simplicity is deceiving. The portraits represented the ambivalent synthesized reality that originated from superimposing two different surfaces: a second skin, belonging to the artist, is precisely drafted onto the face of the 6 sitters.

Self-portrait with builders, Shunji Hori

The manipulated result remained so close to what we already know that it actually inconspicuously replaces reality. Only when the photographs were read in relation to one another the intended act becomes clear: a new reality, denying the quest for individual self-definition, is about to take center stage.