NEORT++ is pleased to announce the solo exhibition "Passing" by Ryu Furusawa.

Statement

This exhibition presents Passing, a new work by Ryu Furusawa. Applying an original digital process to footage captured through a train window, the work transforms the very experience of time that "passing" entails.
When we gaze at a landscape from a moving train, depth emerges naturally from the flow before us. Nearby utility poles and buildings rush past; distant mountain ranges barely move. It is this gradient of speeds that constitutes our perception of depth. This mechanism rests on a premise: that the observer and the observed share the same three-dimensional space, and that time flows in a single direction. When that premise collapses — where do our perceptions of position, distance, speed, and time begin to drift?
The digital process begins by giving the footage volume — treating the moving image as a series of still images stacked one behind the other. In conventional playback, this volume is traversed linearly by extracting cross-sections over time. In Passing, however, that angle is freely rotated. The simultaneity that once held within a single frame dissolves. The perspectival space converging toward a vanishing point gradually transforms, through the horizon as its axis, into a parallel projection where a single vanishing point gives way to the horizon itself. The order of space and time quietly comes undone.


Production Support: Sony Corporation
Grant Support: Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, Japanese Motion Graphic Creators - CREATOR GRANT, MAM, General Incorporated Association
Co-organizer: NEORT,Inc.
Organizer: Ryu Furusawa Exhibition Committee