Re-Composed: Kensuke Koike

22 Apr-27 Jun 2021

Overview

Venice-based artist Kensuke Koike (b.1980, Japan) deconstructs and reconfigures vintage photographs and postcards to create sculptural works with a surrealist playfulness. His practice is centred around a philosophy of 'no more, no less' exploring the possibilities of creating a new image made up only of itself. This involves using only the existing assets found within an image to create a contemporary visual with a new narrative - a process he has coined as 'single image processing'. Using found objects in this way creates a more dynamic way of working, as although he experiments with many prototypes initially, there is only one chance to work with the original photograph.