“Shiroshita paints with India ink, has the works photographed before they dry by Mihotani, prints them with an inkjet printer, and displays the works at exhibition – that was the first plan to prepare for the exhibition. Later, he ended up displaying the works on an LCD screen, which contains the original theme “painting/photographing”.
At the online exhibition, of course viewer can enlarge the images of the artworks, but also VR enables them to see those works as if they were at the gallery. “
-Bijutsu Techo

“At first, the exhibition was to show an artist’s, Koji Shoroshita, works right after he finished them (with the India ink still wet) in the form of inkjet printings of photographs, which were shot by a photographer, Masasi Mihotani.　
However, they shifted it to an online exhibition, as is appropriate for the current circumstances, and “showing the series of works on LCD screens” has become the concept of the show. Words like “re-creation” or “expression” come across our minds, but at the same time, it also contains the original theme of “painting/photographing”. Due to the drastic change of situations, the phase of “reconsidering way to see arts” (which was bound to happen eventually), has unexpectedly come sooner rather than later. Considering Shiroshita’s goal of questioning the essence of a “Picture,” it was probably inevitable for this show to become an online exhibition.
-IMA ONLINE

“Shiroshita paints pictures every day, and he has come to think of how he can keep those pictures as they are in the very first moment he thought “This is it! It’s finished!”. He kept shooting photos with his iPhone and was thinking about showing them at an exhibition as artworks someday. This time, a photographer, Masashi Mihotani was present at Shiroshita’s creation, and Mihotani shot the works when Shiroshita thought they were complete, which is how they are printed and displayed at this exhibition.
Are those printed works pictures or photographs? When do we start to call them “pictures” in the first place? – Through the collaborative creation with Mihotani, Shiroshita gets to the question he’s had for these few years, “What is the essence of a “picture”?
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