HEAVY BODY PAINT (series)

Photo:Naohiro Utagawa
Courtesy by MASAHIRO MAKI GALLERY

A follow-up to Body Paint, HEAVY BODY PAINT is a series in which exonemo paints directly onto LCD monitors that are playing video footage. Each LCD screen shows a video of a jar of paint, and the screen is painted over in the same color as the paint, leaving just the jar visible. In contrast to the stiff texture of the dried acrylic paint, the handheld camera adds a subtle shake to the footage, producing a three-dimensional visual effect. The high-definition 4K (3840×2160 pixels) video also blurs the boundary between the video inside the monitor and the painting outside it, creating the illusion of a real paint jar.

Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Audio Commentary (Japanese)