Atsushi Momoi
Japan
ARTIST BIO
Atsushi Momoi is based in Tokyo, Japan. He studied sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University before moving to London, where he studied photography at the London College of Printing (now the London College of Communication).
His photographic practice explores the relationship between the inner and outer selves—seeking to visualize the shifting connection between his subjective experience, shaped by layers of memory, and the external world as it is perceived. By examining how material reality intertwines with personal memory, Momoi reveals the multiple layers of the world that emerge through this process, and in doing so, pursues new values that invite viewers to reconsider their own ways of seeing.
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 different 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
