M5A5, by Go Watanabe
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- Sat,
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Project SpaceCentro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
Through 3DCG (three-dimensional computer graphics) distortion of everyday objects, ‘M5A5’ raises questions concerning our perception of reality in an extreme slow-motion sensory experience.
‘M5A5’ (2017, 47’57”) is an impactful large-scale video work that plays with audience’s expectations regarding authenticity and deception. A total of four large projected images are carefully placed in the exhibition room, depicting a motif of tableware on shelves that slowly shift and collapse.
Although made with 3DCG, the objects are of such realism that, before collapsing, they can be mistaken for the real thing. The moment a crack appears on their surface and their hollowness is revealed, the viewer experiences a shift from reality to the created world. Producing a fracture between what is apparent and what is evident, Watanabe questions materiality, spatiality, and temporality.
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Biographies
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Go Watanabe
Go Watanabe (b. Hyogo, 1975) is an artist working with 3DCG (three dimensional computer graphics) based video. Since 2009, the motifs of his work have shifted to familiar things around him such as books, tableware, and rooms. His video installations questions material, spatial, and temporal characteristics by reorganising the temporal order and angles of light falling onto objects, revealing the jumbled phenomenon of desynchronisation and continuity. He has been part of group exhibitions in museums around Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Poland, Switzerland, Germany, and Lithuania, and his works are included in collections such as the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), and Louis Vuitton (Paris, France).
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Curatorship
Emmanuelle de Montgazon
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