KIOTO AOKI

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  • Duet in C(amera)

    Film loop and photography installation. Projectors activated by sensors as viewer enters the space, enabling the viewer to be instigator of one layer of movement.

    16mm film loops
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    2017

    Low Residency MFA Show
    Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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  • Dual Enframe

    Projection installation of Dual Enframe for Projections after Dark at Roman Susan

    Chicago, IL | 2018
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  • Living Architecture at Lubeznik Center

    frame, columns, inflection(2019)
    Artist books that respond to the architecture of the installation space, highlighting the three supportive columns. Each column was photographed from four rotating vantage points, mirroring the movement of the body as one interacts with Shotgun. Each column has its own set of images photographed using a large format camera and the artists’ hand-made pinhole camera. Large format cameras were once the standard for architectural photography and the pinhole was used to photograph the original iteration of the work at 6018|North. The resulting books are folded in a way that structurally mimics the quadrants of Shotgun, the Duchampian door piece by First Office.

    frame, ways, inflections(2018)
    16mm, b/w, silent
    digital floor projection

    Second iteration of Living Architecture at Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City IN
    October 30, 2019 - Jan 4, 2020
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  • Living Architecture

    Site specific film and book installation at 6018|North for Living Architecture, a large-scale, multidisciplinary exhibition highlighting the influence and impact of immigrant artists on Chicago.

    Inspired by architect Bernard Cache's notion of inflections and acknowledging the lineage of architectural photographer Idaka Yuichi, the film activates two existing works at the gallery: "Shotgun" by First Office located in the basement and Vlatka Horvat's "Door to Door" on the second floor. The piece is installed as a projection in the closet, behind Horvat's piece of all the doors from the building. The books are pinhole images taken and installed in the stairwells, as a way to activate the space visitors pass through to go from the basement doors to the closet projection.

    frame,ways,inflections | 2018
    digital projection of 16mm, b/w, silent

    frame,wells,inflection | 2018
    archival inkjet artist books
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  • I’ve got to hand it to myself

    72 contour sketches
    2020

    for 思考回路•Shikoukairo II: Patterns of Thought
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  • Mainly Leader

    Two-person show with Ellie Hazlett hosted by AnySquared Projects at Hairpin Arts Center.
    35mm and 16mm film leader
    2017
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