2003 Vision's Program exibition, "Kosemura Mami ＋ Sawanobori Kyoko", Vision's, Tokyo
2004 "MOT Annual 2004 Where do I come from? Where am I going?", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2004 "Picture in Motion", Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi
2005 "art on film − picture / film” Yokohama Art Museum , Kanagawa
2005 "EXiS2005" Seoul Art Cinema & space Cell , Korea
2005 "Experimental Cinema in Japan" Centre culturel la Clef , France
2007 "Animation - Adventures of "Moving Picture", Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
bibliography & article
"Vision's Program exibition, Kosemura Mami ＋ Sawanobori Kyoko"(Catalog), Vision's, Tokyo 2003 ［Photographs/C.V.］
Atsuo Sugawara "The changing self-existence"（review）,The Yomiuri Shimbun 2004/2/5
"MOT Annual 2004 -Where do I come from? Where am I going?-"(Catalog), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 2004 ［Comment］p.15-17/Naoko Seki (Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo) ［Photographs］p.58-65 ［C.V.］p.93~94 p.97~98 ［Bibliography］p.101 [1] [2]
I subsequent work have been concerned with interactions between painting and video.Sweet Scent, which appears in this exhibition, resembles a still life by Francisco de Zurburan (1598-1664).
I reproduced the arrangement of fruit and a cup in an interior found in the painting and photographed it every hour with a digital camera to document the changing condition of the fruit as it decomposed. This process was continued for several months, and I colored each image to look like a painting, and drew in it. Moreover, the shape of the object was transformed, and the images were edited on DVD.
The images formed by this method are documentary but also fictional. In this way, the flowers and fruit pile change upon change in the name of "painting" so that even I, the maker, cannot distinguish whether a particular flower is real or fabricated. However, when one sees a video image one cannot help having a definite feeling of reality in the dying form of the fruit and the flowers. I want to examine this scene.
Written by Mami KOSEMURA ["Picture in Motion"Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts 2004]
Mami KOSEMURA (1975-)studied oil painting and mural painting, and her subsequent work has been concerned with interactions between painting and video.
Sweet Scent, which appears in this exhibition, resembles a still life by Francisco de Zurburan (1598-1664).
Kosemura reproduced the arrangement of fruit and a cup in an interior found in the painting and photographed it every hour hour with a digital camera to document the changing condition of the fruit as it decomposed. This process was continued for several months, and the images were edited on DVD. Like Decaying, which refers to a still life once attributed to Caravaggio (1573-1664), this work is based on a desire to examine the changing appearance of objects that are frozen in a still life painting. The artist says that when she tries to reproducing the actual space that was painted, she finds how much the artist's imagination was operating in all areas of the pictures, producing flowers and fruits that could not exist in a real world with gravity. That is, the things created in the fictional world of painting are accepted as having a natural existence within the work only because viewers are used to a certain way of looking at it as a work of art. The concern of the artist is to bring this fictional creation into the world of reality and develop by it by giving it movement and change. To Kosemura, painting and video both portray fictional worlds.
In another work prepared for this exhibition, it is possible to look through a window at the actual space used in the video work and see a cup and a cut flower that is kept form rotting with the use of special chemicals. The painting on which this scene is based present. The video provides a different kind of experience by showing what happens to it after that moment in a condensed flow of time. The still life that appears here is frozen in the state it was in when the video documentation began.
Written by Naoko Seki / Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [ "Where do I come from? Where am I going? : MOT Annual 2004"]
2003
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