Shadow Touch
November 22 – December 21 2012
The exhibition Out of Shadows took place in Vasa Konsthall,
Gothenburg, and included painting and sculpture by local
artists Ralph Holmström and Georg Möller. It also included
a digital installation by the Japanese new media artist
Teruaki Tsubokura.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION AND THE ARTISTS
Ralph Holmström is a painter and sculptor; he is also a
lyricist. His works generally deal with the essential
conditions that mark the life of every human being: life
and death, God and chance, love and indifference, light
and darkness, and possibly light at the other side of
darkness. Georg Möller calls himself image creator and
lyrics engineer. In the works exhibited at Vasa konsthall,
he playfully evoked memories of Kazimir Malevich and
the Russian suprematists in the early 20th century.
Teruaki Tsubokura is an upcoming new media artist from
Japan that chose Creativity Unlimited as collaborator
for his first performance in Europe. During the exhibition,
Tsubokura presented the work Shadow Touch, where he uses
interactive technology to produce illusions that soon turn
into something different from what you would expect. Like
so many illusionist before him, he thereby raises the eternal
questions: What is true, what is false? What is reality? The
interactive work requires the audience to use flashlights
to look for shadows on an otherwise empty surface. Inside
the flashlight is a remote control wirelessly connected to
a computer generating everything that takes place. The
technology enables the person holding the flashlight to
find shadows and play with them by touching, holding and
throwing them around. In Teruaki Tsubokuras own words:
”We wanted to remove the difference between real and digital
objects, and thought it would be interesting to use shadows,
which are very well known phenomena.”
Out of Shadows was partly produced in cooperation with
Chalmers University of Technology.