Hiromi Ishii
Refraction
Refraction, 2010 Electronic music with video 7‘04‘‘ Courtesy the artist
Refraction is an abstract composition made up of different shapes and movements of light and shadow. The original image, upon which the piece is based, is a photograph of fish. The shot has been changed by extracting a blue colour tone and silver light rays from the image. The elementary music in the video is one single, extended tone from a bamboo Shakuhachi flute, repeated over 80 times.
Reduce, extract, and refine – these are typical artistic techniques in traditional Japanese art, and this piece is intended to transpose the new aesthetic and methodological principles of digital technologies in both the aural and visual domains onto work in contemporary art. The artist composed the sound and image in parallel with each other and thus treats them as equals in her work.
Hiromi Ishii, *1957
lives and works in Düren
lives and works in Düren