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NOLL

NOLL, a creative unit that pursues art and technology to create new possibilities for a new age, will exhibit its new work "LIKE" and past work "Reincarnation" at CONTRAST on March 25th, Saturday, and 26th, Sunday. LIKE takes a bird’s-eye view of the modern, streamlined love. Love used to require a slow approach to win over the other person’s heart. Nowadays, dating apps allow us to instantly approach and communicate with multiple people. The use of technology has managed to lower the hurdles of meeting and developing love, birthing a new kind of relationship process compared to a decade ago. Love is changing from “LOVE” to “LIKE.” In this piece, a smartphone with a virtual dating app and an automatic swipe machine are displayed in frames. Searching for a match based on facial features, ethnicity/race, and the similarities of colors in each image, the machine automatically swipes “LIKE” or “NOPE.” When a match is made, a digital human with characteristics of both is born, leading it to grow rapidly to the age where they can use dating apps. The piece makes it possible to witness the efficient modern “love” and “breeding” by repeating this cycle semi-permanently. We consider this transformation of modern love to be the first step into a realm untouched by mankind. By exhibiting smartphones and automatic swipe machines in picture frames - like a painting that cuts out a scene where Adam and Eve meet. We express the sacredness of it all. Though “love” is a basic innate impulse for most human beings, we let intelligence intervene to make the process more efficient. Peeking with a bird’s eye view to an inorganic love cycle streamlined by LIKE, the viewers are allowed space to ponder about modern society and the future. Artwork by NOLL Inc. and Shinpei Miura NOLL Inc. Project member:Genya Ohashi / Takuro Kawashima / Jun Inagaki / Madoka Ashida

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Luigi Honorat

CONTRAST is pleased to present a solo exhibition"Absences" by Tokyo based French visual artist Luigi Honorat from March 4th, Saturday to March 19th, Sunday. Luigi was trained as a sculptor at the Musashino Art University, where he currently holds a position as a lecturer. He explores the medium of physical matter and 3DCG to search for new sculptural forms, movements, and processes. He combines and interlinks various elements such as "reality and virtuality,""object and data," and "beauty and the uncanny," to create installations, sculptures, and video works. He has worked for brands like Apple, Adidas, L'Oréal, The New York Times, as well as musicians such as Moses Sumney, Son Lux's Ian Chang, Micka Luna, Variéras, etc. In this exhibition, he will present a new series of digital sculptures in three different mediums: print, AR (augmented reality), and video. Through prints and AR, audiences can experience digital sculptures that do not exist, and also in the video work, a series of digital sculpture forms are structured, and the process of transmuting, disappearing, and dissolving the figurative bodies explores the concept of "Absences". In addition, AR marker prints will be available for purchase at the venue, which can be experienced in other spaces to inquire about the relationship between space and the body. Although he has been showing many of his works on social media, we hope you will take this opportunity to enjoy the world of "Absences" filled with virtual and digital sculptures that exist in reality.

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DOP/EDIT: Ryosuke Senda
DIRECTION : Taiju Nakajima (IN FOCUS)
PRODUCE : Masaki Fushimi (IN FOCUS)


PHOTO:Yoshinori Kataoka (IN FOCUS)

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DOP/EDIT: Ryosuke Senda
DIRECTION : Taiju Nakajima (IN FOCUS)
PRODUCE : Masaki Fushimi (IN FOCUS)


PHOTO:Yoshinori Kataoka (IN FOCUS)

Luigi Honorat
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In 2022, CONTRAST opened as a creative space in Yoyogi-Hachiman, Tokyo. The interior, based on a 45-year-old structure, consists of three floors under the concept of "reconstruction," and is managed by IN FOCUS, a digital branding studio that operates under the theme of "We propose new perspectives through a collective pursuit of digital excellence.". The space not only serves as its own creative space but also aims to be widely open to the public, providing a space for continuous and experimental reconstruction by its users, breaking free from limitations. Focusing on various forms of expression and encountering the creators who produce them, we will come to understand the importance of "CONTRAST = comparison" in our endeavors. Operated by IN FOCUS.In 2022, CONTRAST opened as a creative space in Yoyogi-Hachiman, Tokyo. The interior, based on a 45-year-old structure, consists of three floors under the concept of "reconstruction," and is managed by IN FOCUS, a digital branding studio that operates under the theme of "We propose new perspectives through a collective pursuit of digital excellence.". The space not only serves as its own creative space but also aims to be widely open to the public, providing a space for continuous and experimental reconstruction by its users, breaking free from limitations. Focusing on various forms of expression and encountering the creators who produce them, we will come to understand the importance of "CONTRAST = comparison" in our endeavors. Operated by IN FOCUS.

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