KENRYOU GU

A rising star on the art scene, Gu’s exhibitions to date include _GU Kenryou: Intervals of the afterimage, _staged at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, as part of its Aperto series predominantly showcasing up-and-coming artists.

Gu presents photographic works created using a technique he calls ‘digital weaving,’ in which multiple photographic images are broken down into pixels and recombined on-screen into photographs. _Dimensions Unseen _features new works based on a rock Gu encountered on a visit to Iceland. He sent the coordinates for this rock’s position to 16 friends around the world, and asked them to take photos looking toward the rock from their own location. The resulting 16 images were then combined using digital weaving.

The exhibition is composed of these photographs, plus photos of the rock taken by Gu, maps and other material. Fragments of multiple images, imbued with the disconnect existing between the actuality of the earth as a sphere, and map coordinates positioned on a flat surface, are merged on a single plane via Gu’s digital weaving. Don’t miss this display of new work by an artist who perceives and understands the world from a single rock, and in doing so succeeds in expanding the possibilities of photographic expression.