October 7 - October 29, 2022
Ogawa’s “Luminous moldings” dominate the viewer’s spatial sensation by utilizing the refraction of light, renovating the idea of visual experience itself. The process, in which various mediums including special processing films turn into an illuminator as a result of his exquisite techniques and elaborate manufacturing, looks as if we witnessed breathtaking metamorphosis. Ogawa’s “light” calls fragmentally the viewer’s attention not only to their unprecedented experience of “seeing”, but also to their personal reminiscence, retrospective feeling, and a part of the art history.
In this exhibition, Ogawa delves further into this theme of “light” (image), which is equal to “reminiscence”:
An image obtained by the sensor of the brain is only a record of the past.
To the idea of three-dimensional sculptural works, I'd like to add the time axis as an element that consists of four-dimensional space-time. By considering this “time axis” as “light” and visualizing it, I am trying to construct a narrative of the work which crossed over versatile dimensions. If an image that we are seeing at this moment is only a “virtual image”, does “reality” have another meaning? What is the truth concealed within? In the middle of the surrealistic luminous experience filled with dimensional works, I'd like visitors to ruminate on this question.
This series is an ideal “recreation of the galaxy” envisioned by Ogawa. The work incorporates the differences (gaps) in perception that occur in everyday life.
A work in which complex shapes are covered with a seal-like film. The boundary line between the inside and outside of the film makes this piece stand out.
One of Ogawa's earlier series that expresses the twinkling of galaxies floating in space. The prism shows various expressions through the refraction of the surface shape.
A work that evokes the appearance of water vapor condensing on the surface of glass. A prism is projected by making minute frosted glass-like scratches on the surface which both reflect and produce color. This is a derivative work from Liquid prism.
This work is based on the motif of misalignment in the perceptions that occurs in 'the sense of discrepancy between the image seen and the actual form' like a Phantom of an illusion.
Multifaceted undulations covered with a special film are connected in a sheet. The installation work is completed by the relationship between the space, the viewer, and the work that disperses light particles in a spectrum of colors.
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