Polytope1

Polytope1

Series concept:
The mass of the material is chipped off in the photograph, and there is also no unevenness due to the stroke of the brush, so it is only on the surface.
Maybe the way of looking at what it expresses varies according to the feeling of the person looking at it, and they can look at the surface at a glance.

With the photograph as the medium, I mix reality and fiction, and by the process of creation, I’m creating the work while facing reality and fabrication myself.
As for transversing the solid body and the level surface, even though I’m dealing with reality and fabrication directly, I think it’s a suitable method.

Up to now I’ve been making a series of photographic works using an organic design, but although I’ve tried to represent the space with the same method, it hasn’t been successful.
By means of whichever organic design, the atmosphere of how I thought the space should be expressed was obstructed.
Because of this, I stopped using wire and thread, made a more simple solid object with paper, and I represented it at first glance as an inorganic space.

A familiar scene made into a motif.
I captured that scene in the photograph and made it into a work by making it into a solid object with the unneeded forms simplified, then took the photograph again.
The shining of the light brings it closer to a photograph made into a motif.
Ultimately, I’m attempting to extract something which has a connection to my spirit.
It could be said that the theme of this series is me as the subject looking at that scene.

By making this series for this space at the same time as the “Fragment of LTM series”, I wonder whether the contrast and blending of organic and inorganic things comes out.
In all, with the blending of the subject and environment, I hope to enlarge upon my theme of the state of reality and fiction.

I made the title of this series the “Polytope series”.

ABOUT THIS SITE

This site is Yuichi Ikehata works site.

Kakuunohito “架空の人” is
my disappearing performance unit name.

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AWARD

2010
Tokyo graphic passport (Portfolio viewing award)

2012
PX3 Prix de la photographie paris
Silver winner and honorable mention
IPA International Photography Awards
Honorable mention

2013
Kontinent Awards 2013
Official selection
6th_Photography Masters Cup
Nomination
London International Creative Competition 2013
Finalist and Honorable mention

2014
PX3 Prix de la photographie paris
Bronze winner and honorable mention
IPA International Photography Awards
1st place (gold) winner and honorable mention
Kontinent Awards 2014
Official selection
ND Awards 2014
Honorable mention

2015
PX3 Prix de la photographie paris
honorable mention
IPA International Photography Awards
honorable mention

EXHIBITION

1996 Clue select exhibition

1997 5th International exhibition MILANO-TOKYO

1998 Tama select exhibition

2010 Tokyo graphic passport (Portfolio viewing award)

2011 白黒ショー vol.3 / +81 Gallery+Lab Photo exhibition

2012 The Collective & The Collection ArtGallery Bat-Yam Israel

2014 Group exhibition Vol.65 +81 GALLERY New York

2015 FLUX EXHIBITION at Royal College of Art Kensington

2016 FLUX EXHIBITION at The Old Truman Brewery

2016 IPS – Flowers of My Soul at Forografia Pino Giannini

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Elementary particles 8

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I started studying 3D.

Series concept:
In the earlier version of this series, a strong commitment to the medium of photography created a disconnect between the title “Polytope” and the works themselves.

In the newly developed “Polytope” series, I have returned to the idea of perceiving objects as flat representations of polyhedra. By utilizing 3DCG technology, I am able to achieve multifaceted expressions with depth and dimensionality, allowing me to create works that genuinely embody the title “Polytope.”

The works in this series are characterized by their “abstraction” and “anonymization.”

In this series, the distinction between surface-level reality and fiction is not of primary importance in the initial stage. Each work itself is an abstracted mass of fiction in the form of a polyhedron, and engaging with this fiction simultaneously serves as an encounter with reality.

In the next stage, the surface-level worlds of reality and fiction become footprints of my creative process. These footprints are intended to serve as materials for dialogue with reality, forming a system that invites such engagement.

This series is an attempt to reconsider the boundary between fiction and reality in the context of a modern world where virtual reality has become part of everyday life. It explores the very methods by which we perceive and interpret the world around us.

以前のこのシリーズでは、写真という媒体への強いこだわりが、「Polytope」というタイトルと作品との間に齟齬を生んでいました。

新たに展開している「Polytope」シリーズでは、物事を多面体として平板に捉えるという発想に立ち返り、制作を進めています。3DCG技術を活用することで、奥行きや立体感を備えた多面的な表現が可能となり、「Polytope(多面体)」というタイトルにふさわしい作品を素直に作り出せています。

このシリーズの作品は、「抽象化」や「匿名化」を特徴としています。

本シリーズにおいて、表面的な現実と虚構の区別は、初期段階では主題として重要ではありません。各作品そのものが、多面体として抽象化された虚構の塊であり、その虚構との対話は、同時に現実との出会いをもたらすものです。

次の段階では、表面的な現実や虚構の世界が、私の制作プロセスの足跡として現れてきます。これらの足跡が、現実との対話を生むための素材となることを意図しています。

このシリーズは、仮想現実が日常の一部となった現代の文脈において、虚構と現実の境界を再認識し、私たちが物事をどのように捉え、解釈するかという方法そのものを探る試みです。

Elementary particles 7

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Elementary particles 6

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Elementary particles 5

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Elementary particles 4

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Elementary particles 3

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Elementary particles 2

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Elementary particles 1

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Series concept:
The world we see with our eyes is different from one seen in the photo.
However, now, photos are a field of vision cut moments and shared.
As we see in our mind as chasing after various sights of matters, even if the sight is moving or still, we see things visually based on the photos.

The photo is the same as visioning imaginal matters in sight,
as they are shared in the internet, they are mysterious things without quantity as an object.

I will identify the mysterious photo being as the object by manual as developed photos.
In short, I will show the photos I shot by myself and I will draw them with a pencil by seeing them.
For me description by pencil is one of the most primitive expression.

In this series, I reproduce the mysterious photos in the thickness of only 0 comma millimeters,
and I will search the expression’s structural factor by taking time.

Fragment of LTM15

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Production process of Fragment of LTM series

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Fragment of LTM14

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Polytope3

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Fragment of LTM13

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Polytope2

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