Painted Negativity 10 - 20
media/size: unique inkjet print on paper, inkjet print on transparent sheet, colored frame/ 34 x 34 cm
Painted Negativity is flat-screen work which was invented to make paintings without using hands. One of the characteristics of Painted Negativity is the structure with the paring of images, which is used as a metaphor of the fundamental structure of language; if there are more than 2 units like meaning=value, they are always defined by the each others' negative interactions between the units (when there are arbitrary propositions A and B, A+B⇔A=!B∧B=!A [‘!’ means negation]).
As above, the other characteristic of Painted Negativity is the generated typical phenomena of painting like bleeding and blurring without hands, which came from the following thought of mine: now the images used in Painted Negativity exists as a metaphor of language, the process must be separated from the artist's personal attribute.
In the series, I used only abstract images in 2011, and since 2012, I have started to use abstracted pornography in place of just abstract images as a new approach. It has enabled interposition of ‘eroticism’ to the phenomena of paintings as metaphor of language.
The additional thing as a new characteristic is following:
[a] Effect which enables viewers to feel it just beautiful, when they focus on its optical beautifulness only.
[a'] Effect which brings discordance to viewers' ‘aesthetic basis = ethical consistency’ that makes distinction what is beautiful or ugly, when they notice that the objects used on it are pornography like vaginas etc.
This is also an attempt to cause a split within indivisibility between ‘sign’ and ‘content’ (means ‘signifiant’ and ‘signifie’ in linguistics term), which is the universal structure of language.
In that sense, eventually the above effect(s) directly operate(s) function of language itself, not only as metaphor or analogy.
Since 2013, I have started to combine paired two flat images into one layered screen. Concretely, I precisely printed an image 1 of 2 on the acrylic surface of the frame which is for the other unique-printed sheet. As the result, some sculptural aspect has come out not only as paintings.
photos by Aisho Miura Arts