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3-5-10 Jingumae
Shibuya-ku TOKYO 150-0001
tel. 03-6384-5107
saoh@jpin.co.jp

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GALLERY SAOH & TOMOS

EXHIBITION

"lost connection"

Kana Ueda Exhibition

16th(tue)---27th(sat) Apr.2024

Closed on Sunday

11:00---18:00

The last day until 17:00

#illusion #幻影 #clueless

(sky) series

 Cyanotypes is a photographic technique also known as sun-printing or blueprinting, as it can print images in blue with UV light.

During the making of my cyanotypes, I was troubled by rainy weather. Checking the weather forecast became a daily routine.  Each time I looked at the bright blue test prints I had made in the past, a sunny sky would come across my mind.  

Gradually, I felt as if the act of waiting and imagining a blue sky was an integral process of making cyanotypes, so I decided to use this technique to create a series of imaginary skies.  

I used copyright-free photographs found on the Internet, unrelated to skies and cut out parts of them to create negatives.  The negatives were then set on paper coated with cyanotype chemicals and exposed.

When converted to blue, the images become detached from their original context and are transformed into blue skies. 
Images of geysers, X-ray photos from mammography, or light shining on children’s playgrounds emerged as the idealized skies I had longed for during process.  

Casting light can be a means to evoke the absent.  

上田佳奈｜KANA UEDA

GALLERY SAOH & TOMOS

3-5-10 Jingumae
Shibuya-ku TOKYO 150-0001
tel. 03-6384-5107
saoh@jpin.co.jp
　　　

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