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Empty Gallery is pleased to present Pass, New York-based artist Taro Masushio’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Masushio’s practice positions photography as a kind of ontological research or speculative machine within a nexus which also includes video, drawing, and sculpture. Often departing from an engagement with informal (or imaginary) archives, Masushio investigates the capacity of images, not to document an underlying reality, but to manipulate, enframe, and ultimately, extend our own perception.
Pass originates from Masushio’s intimate engagement with the touristic travel photography of his own father––a retired Japanese school teacher with a penchant for excursions to far-flung and exotic locales. He appropriates and transforms these superficially unremarkable vacation images––which mingle conventional romanticism with a certain hazy coloniality––printing them on scavenged cardboard used for the bulk shipment of Japanese consumer goods....More
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Empty Gallery is pleased to present Pass, New York-based artist Taro Masushio’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Masushio’s practice positions photography as a kind of ontological research or speculative machine within a nexus which also includes video, drawing, and sculpture. Often departing from an engagement with informal (or imaginary) archives, Masushio investigates the capacity of images, not to document an underlying reality, but to manipulate, enframe, and ultimately, extend our own perception.
Pass originates from Masushio’s intimate engagement with the touristic travel photography of his own father––a retired Japanese school teacher with a penchant for excursions to far-flung and exotic locales. He appropriates and transforms these superficially unremarkable vacation images––which mingle conventional romanticism with a certain hazy coloniality––printing them on scavenged cardboard used for the bulk shipment of Japanese consumer goods....More
