Body Paint (series)
exonemo
Asia Culture Center (ACC)
Gwangju, South Korea
The Japanese artist duo Exonemo who continuously combines old things and new things displayed <body paint>(2014) series. This work utilizes a portrait of eccentric scene of a single color created by a colored screen and a human body. In this work, common LCD display and human body are re-intermediated into post-digital frame.
Each work in this portrait series features a person painted entirely in a single shade of color, displayed on an LCD which has been entirely painted in the same color except for the human subject on the screen. In particular, the background and foreground are painted in the same paint, and human body becomes an electronic display body. In addition, from the perspective of contents, the portrait of body painting in a single color asks a question about the definition of our body in the world of networking information. With these boundaries erased, subject can be said to become the sense of ambiguity and confusion, and a questioning of the definition of whether the individual depicted is human being or representation.
Sembo Kensuke and AKAIWA Yae formed the artist unit Exonemo in 1999. Their experimental projects are explorations of the paradoxes of digital and analog computer networked and actual environments in our lives. Their movie <the road movie> won the Golden Nica for Net Vision category at Prix Ars Electronica 2006. They have been organizing the IDPW gatherings and Internet Yami-Ichi(blak market) since 2012.
- Title: Body Paint (series)
- Creator: exonemo
- Date Created: 2014
- Type: Media Installation
- Medium: Acrylic paint on LCD display, Video imagery
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