Hiroshi Aoki
"TIMELESSNESS AND THE COLORS ON THE SURFACE OF THIS WORLD"

Exhibition: 7 September – 9 November, 2018
Opening: 6 September, 18:30 - 20:30hrs
The Artist is present.

"TIMELESSNESS AND THE COLORS ON THE SURFACE OF THIS WORLD" builds ensuing scenes that move across time and space, while considering collectivity, anonymity and the idea of identity through history, fantasy and assumption.

Gallery Under the Mango Tree proudly presents the first solo exhibition of Hiroshi Aoki and gladly invites you to gather this experience of timelessness and the colors on the surface of this world.

A need for knowledge of what transcends time is built into the very nature of the human mind and imagination. Maps change, histories move. Concrete, lights, lives and landscapes blur. Open-ended and un-documentary. Presented within a photographic dialog the works are suggestive of life, there is the anticipation of movement: only colors are present. The scenes evoke that the time is both a physical dimension of the universe and a dynamic, fluctuating process of change.

What happens when you layer one time on to another time? Is the sum equivalent to one temporal experience, analogous to the mysteriously singular ‘composite’ portrait of many realities – beyond every race, global borders - which as `new and unique´ has its new identity or is the result only a simple solution of two times at once? An idea made manifest as a photographic experiment or a reality of an imagination to bring together the identity of simple existence and its appreciation.

A childhood intention to understand and appreciate the global differences led Hiroshi Aoki towards a careful cultivation of the perspectives to see through his Lens. From United States to Norway to Japan to Germany. By combining elements, observing changes where they occur, and keeping a close watch on the way in which the world courses through his consciousness, Hiroshi Aoki also subsequently generated in the continuity - A Blue Print of Berlin. Located at the intersections of contemporary art and its historical and philosophical enquiry- those who take a closer look at the works created in 2015 in Berlin, will see that his works consists of an exclamation and question mark. Much can be gained with this realization, but not everything- because only those who take the trouble to go into the depth of the title, see more.

Born in Hokkaido in Japan, Hiroshi Aoki graduated from Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo, Japan. After being attached professionally with the Nippon Design Centre till 2014 where he accomplished his professional portfolios for various clients in the automobile industry to Banks, he started as a freelancer photographer in London and Berlin till 2015. At present he works and lives in Tokyo.

"This instant (moment) of time also might be a world produced by someone else".

It seems that human beings have discovered the existence of powers that could make anything. The theme of √BIT (this project) is of such modern values which is mysterious and with hidden danger. These series of the photos are the activity which get dissolved in the world; “now” we perceive as a state that seems to be liquid and returns to the minimum material unit. The scenes catching its moment are beautiful and seem to be emotional, but it is the experiment just accomplishing a series of mechanical actions without human feelings. These works were produced by the method strayed from the conception of taking photographs. We hope it would be an opportunity to reconstruct time for each person who sees these works. (Hiroshi Aoki)

Invitation to Participate

"A POSTCARD TO THE FUTURE" – YOUR ENGAGEMENT WITH TIME
Each wish for the future has its seed in the present moment.

At the exhibition opening — 6th September — visitors are invited to write a message about time on a postcard by HIROSHI AOKI, available in the gallery. This message may include a personal definition about time, how one understands it or what one wishes to do with the available time. Acknowledging that each wish for the future has its seed in the present moment, this is an experiment to explore how we think and what our aspirations are. All postcards will be collected and shown in the exhibition’s final week, in the hope that every wish—be it personal, professional or social — may be fulfilled.