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Kenji Sugiyama, Gaze into the Distance, 2024, mixed media (paper, mirror, wood board, acrylic), 165 × 50 × 50 cm -
Primo Marella Gallery is pleased to present a project room dedicated to Japanese artist Kenji Sugiyama, whose visionary practice explores personal memory, visual perception, and space as an inner, immersive experience. This viewing room focuses on Gaze into the Distance, the latest development in his ongoing series that transforms intimate environmentsm, from imaginary museums to libraries of memory, into layered, introspective worlds. Inspired by an old-fashioned theatre, the work takes the shape of a large eye that watches and invites to be watched, where each viewer becomes an integral part of the piece, weaving together recollections, projections, and visions. This new body of work marks a significant transition in the artist’s practice, shifting from a close, intimate gaze to one that extends into the distance, turning the exhibition space into a theatrical labyrinth of shared memories.
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MUSEUM
“I have created a series of works titled Institute of intimate 'Museums'. IIM aims to make people notice their unconscious act of 'seeing'. By utilizing a mirror effectively, viewers are surprised to see the works. After that, they would reconsider what the act of ‘seeing‘.
The works exhibited this time are also the one of this series. What image do you have of a mirror? Some might imagine that there is another world in the mirror, others might say it is just a phenomenon of reflection. Also, there might be people saying that is strange thing since it turns image left-right reversal but never upside down. In this installation, a mirror, which used to be as a device (a part of the works), functions to make viewers call up an image of contrasting works and space.”
- Kenji Sugiyama
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Inside | Outside
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Kenji Sugiyama, Inside 2, 2024mixed media (paper, mirror, wood board, acrylic ,epoxy clay), 57 × 20 × 20 cm
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