Detail of Oblivion (2017)

Installation view at “2017 Core Exhibition” (2017), Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, US

Activation of Oblivion

Detail of Oblivion (2017)

Detail of Oblivion (2017)

Detail of Oblivion (2017)

Drawing produced by Oblivion

Drawings produced by Oblivion

Drawings produced by Oblivion

Drawings produced by Oblivion

Drawings produced by Oblivion

Installation view at “2017 Core Exhibition” (2017), Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, US

Oblivion

2017
Connected pantographs, pastel on paper, wood table, mic stand, tripod


This device is assembled by connecting multiple pantographs which is a simple mechanical linkage to reproduce images. As one manually traces a portrait image found on the internet, those pantographs move and produce simultaneously 15 different drawings of the same portrait.

The reproduced drawings are unrecognizably distorted in accordance with the level of observation made by the manipulator as well as various external factors, such as the mechanism of the device and stress and friction on the arms of the device. Absorbing the technical shortcomings of the mechanical reproduction as part of itself, the project attempts to reduce the portraits, which are scattered on the internet and already removed from its original context, to arbitrary images which can be interpreted in various ways.

この装置は、パンタグラフという単純なリンク機構を用いて図像を複製するための装置をいくつも繋ぎ合わせてできています。インターネット上のポートレート写真を手動でなぞることで、互いに複雑に接続されたパントグラフが一斉に動き、同時に15枚ものドローイングを複製します。

複製されたドローイングは、装置を使う人の知覚、装置の機構やアームの軋み、摩擦などの要素が影響し、言われなければ顔と認識できないほど歪んでしまっています。拡散し、もはや元の意味を失ってしまったポートレイトを、複製技術により生み出されるノイズを取り入れ、無秩序な図像に還元し、拡散させているのです。