KINU KAMURA: Post Matter

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Kinu Kamura, "Fuyuzora (ciel d'hiver) 冬空 (front)," 2019

Kinu Kamura: Post Matter Reception: Thursday, May 16, 6-9 pm

In this era of social media and cameras on mobile devices, it seems the value of an image and its subject matter aren’t as strong as our craze for taking « snaps ». It seems everything has to be documented for some reason and shared online, generally with so little, if any, explanation, resulting in just an abyss of visual recordings.

When considering the latter, can we still take for granted the images we are looking at? How this overconsumption of images has affected the way we look at pictures? How much are we influenced by what we see? The eye no longer lingers on “watching” but just “seeing” a constant stream of images which at the end becomes unreadable if not blurry. Being an artist and short-sighted, this visual world is more than ever a source of inspiration.

Post Matter reveals how the line between Appropriationism and inspiration has become so thin and confusing indeed. Screenshots of Instagram accounts related to art (artist, gallery or museum) and representing others’ artworks are roughly reproduced into simple and blurry compositions: blocs of colours and shapes.

Born in 1988, Kinu Kamura is a young French-Japanese artist. She spent most of her studies abroad between Tokyo, Paris and London. She attended the Parsons School Paris and got graduated from the Central Saint Martins in 2011.

This project is also an attempt to understand and analyse (re) interpretations of an artwork nowadays, addressing, therefore, the fundamental but challenged elements of the contemporary art world, that is the paternity of the work, authenticity, creativity, intellectual property.