atsushi momoi
Japan
ARTIST BIO
Atsushi Momoi is based in Tokyo, Japan. After studying sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, he went to the London College of Printing (currently the London College of Communication) to study photography. His main theme of photography is to depict the relationship between inner and outer self – in other words, to visualize the fluctuating connection between his subjectivity based on layers of memory and the world itself as a recognition object. By intending to show the various layers of the world which appear when grasping material as it mingles with his own memory, he pursues a new sense of value to update people’s perspectives.
PROJECT STATEMENT
“In this project, my aim is to explore the dynamic relationship between order and deviance in liquidity of the world through my personal experience.
The birth and growth of my own child has caused me to reconsider the constant changes in the world and the co-existence of nature and artifice. The chaos and daily dizzying changes of a child show the inner nature within us. On the other hand, in modern times when the social system is highly developed with digital technology, not only the external environment but also human beings are incorporated into it from the fetal state and gradually acclimated as social beings as they grow up.
According to Gilles Deleuze, all things and their relationships are ongoing, always changing toward something diff erent while influencing each other. We human beings have tried to create order by drawing boundaries on nature, which is inherently random and unending, and to see it as comprehensible. However, there always remains deviations that cannot be recovered in a rational sense, and the complexity of the world – reality spilling over in a dualistic framework – emerges from the interrelationship between the two.
This project is composed of everyday photographs that construct a personal narrative and suggest an ambiguous connection to ordered nature and the undefined external structure behind it. By utilizing the ambivalence of reality and image contained within photography makes it possible to move back and forth between the external world and my inner self. I attempted to show the diversity of the world through the visualization of the entanglement and fluidity that occurs within that relationship.” – Atsushi Momoi
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that the Exposure Photography Festival is situated on land adjacent to where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. The traditional Blackfoot name of this place is “Moh’kins’tsis”, which we now call the City of Calgary. This is the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. It is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. We honour and acknowledge all Nations, who live, work and play in Moh’kins’tsis, help steward this land, and honour and celebrate this territory.