“Cosmic Botanical Garden”

solo exhibition by eve.asami

2023.11.11-14 @same gallery, Tokyo

statement:

I have always wished that I could screeshot my eyes - but until that technology will be invented I will be using iPhone as an extension of my eyes to “screenshot” what I observe. Random things that I am somehow intrigued by in everyday landscapes are all recorded in my brain via the iPhone. The photo folder is a visual archive of information before they are reorganized. A visualised brain cosmos.

Form, texture, color, movement, composition, sound, word. A sudden flash of thought in a mundane moment.

Even with random things surrounding our daily life, by shaving off any context clinging to the “things” such as meaning, function or value, those intriguing elements will unfold.
I start then recomposing those fragments of information collected in the everyday, and start creating a new world, a new context.

“Cosmic Botanical Garden” is a fictional planet inside my brain.

This exhibition is a record of conversion process inside myself, as observational artist and researcher, of how visual information captured in the real world is archived, recomposed and output. This new planet in my brain cosmos will become the base of my worldview of art direction and will evolve infinitely according to the development of my thought and work.