Shohei Fujimoto is currently based in Tokyo. His work explores perceptual experiences of essential nature through attempts to concisely capture the data and facts behind phenomena and shapes, emphasize them, and complicate them.
Light, time and autonomy are the motifs of his work. Everything is coded and serves as a component of the exploration process. Fujimoto often calls code and math operations invisible markers that generate shapes. When these are properly constructed, it becomes a protocol that connects the viewer and the work. Instead of sculpting an image in a specific way, he emphasises the data contained in the mathematical operations behind the image from a more primitive perspective and generates a new image. In other words, it is an attempt to concisely capture the pure data and facts that the base image originally has, complicate them, and find a different perspective. The purpose of his photographs is to explore the essential space, the visual experience, and the means of creating art. There is a perceptual experience with new properties, where minimal and organic (wild) properties overlap.
Exhibitions and Shows
2021:
Tresor Berlin 30th Anniversary, 16 April, Tresor’s Youtube Channel
Abstract Art In The Age Of New Media, 8 Feb – 9 May, Mocda’s Virtual Gallery
2020:
Mutek.JP Edition 5 – W/Kyoka 11 Dec, Shibuya Stream Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Paradise City, Apperceptional Glimpse: Traumatised Conventions – W/Kyoka 30 Oct, Paradise City, Incheon, Korea
Solo Exhibition – Intangible Forms, 3 Mar – 13 Mar, 3 Sept – 14 Oct Artechouse, NYC, New York, USA
Japan Media Arts Distributed Museum – Eternel Presented By MUTEK.JP, 1 – 7 Feb, Haneda Airport International Terminal – TIAT SKY HALL, Tokyo, Japan
2019:
Scopes Tokyo Driven By Porsche – W/Machina 6 Dec, WOMB, Tokyo, Japan
Scopes Tokyo Driven By Porsche, 22 Nov – 7 Dec, Social Link Gallery, Tokyo, Japan]
Soft Centre, 14 Sept, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
Electric Castle, 17 – 21 July, Banffy Castle – New Media Castle, Bontida, Romania
Untitled Art’s Exhibition “See The Unseen”, 29 June – 31 Aug, I – FACTORY, Shenzhen, China
Laluna, 15 June, Knockdown Center, New York, USA
Dark Mofo 2019, 14 – 15, 21 – 22 June, Night Mass, Tasmania, Australia
Kings Artist-Run’s Exhibition “And Again {I Wait For Collision}”, 1 – 22 June, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne, Australia
The Group Exhibition “Dance Of Urgency”, 24 Apr – 1 Sept, Museumsquartier Wien’s Institution The Frei_Raum Q21 Exhibition Space, Vienna, Austria
Intervals, 12 – 14 Apr, Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Black, New York 2019, 4 – 5 Apr, Avant Gardner, New York, USA
Q21, 1 Mar – 30 Apr, Q21, Vienna, Austria
Digi Lab: Building Bridges Between Art And Technology – W/Machina, 26 Feb, Edge of, Tokyo, Japan
Live Digital Choc X Mutek.JP – W/Machina, 21 Feb, WWW, Tokyo, Japan
Publications
Artnet News [Editors Picks: 9 Events]
CREATIVE APPLICATIONS NETWORK [Teary Filter]
CREATIVE APPLICATIONS NETWORK [Power Of One #Point]
CREATIVE APPLICATIONS NETWORK [Power Of One #Surface]
CREATIVE APPLICATIONS NETWORK [Trace #Ribbon]
FACT Magazine [Watch Behind-The-Scenes Footage From Berlin Atonal 2018]
FACT Magazine [Density Compression]
KALTBLUT Magazine [BERLIN ATONAL 2018 PREVIEW]
Lightecture [INTANGIBLE FORMS]
Mixmag Asia [Density Compression]
Organic Geometry [Power Of One #Surface]
Prosthetic Knowledge [Power Of One #Point]
Prosthetic Knowledge [Power Of One #Timeline]
Resident Advisor [MUTEK.JP 2018 – Five Key Performances]
Surface Mag [INTANGIBLE FORMS]
The Creators Project [Power Of One #Surface]
The Japan Times [Interview W/Machina]
Timeout [This Bonkers Laser Art Installation Will Blow Your Mind]
Timeout [Artechouse To Reopen With An Incredible 30-Minute Laser Show]
3D reflection data, line point