堀川すなお sunao horikawa

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The starting point of Sunao Horikawa's work is the question, "Isn't there a way of perceiving objects that exist before our eyes that is different from the self-evident way of perceiving them?" In other words, in the process of converting three-dimensional objects seen in daily life into two-dimensional media, there are ways of perceiving objects that seem to faithfully record things in front of us, like photographs, or widely known and used methods like perspective. However, in Horikawa's work, she seeks methods that differ from these conventional ways of perceiving objects.

In exploring new methods of perceiving objects, Horikawa focuses on the process by which people recognize objects. In everyday life, when people recognize objects, they unconsciously judge what those objects are based on past experiences and knowledge. However, these judgments are sometimes influenced by preconceptions and fixed ideas. Therefore, when Horikawa captures objects, she emphasizes careful observation. She then considers several processes of recognition and uses them in her work, imagining how people perceive, recognize, and understand objects. For example, one technique extracts the necessary shapes for recognizing an object and simplifies them not just for individual objects, but for the entire category they belong to - not the shape of a specific banana, but the common shape of things named "banana." This method expresses how people perceive objects through associated images. Another technique focuses on and exaggerates characteristic parts of an object, representing how people construct the whole object from parts that interest them or leave an impression, rather than perceiving the entire image at once.

In this way, Horikawa's work aims to visualize how people perceive objects, encourage questioning of human preconceptions and fixed ideas, and explore new ways of expression that allow objects to be seen from fresh perspectives.

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