Ryota Matsumoto
My work reflects the morphological transformations of our ever-evolving urban and ecological milieus, which could be attributed to a multitude of spatio-temporal phenomena influenced by social, economic, and cultural assemblages. They are created as visual commentaries on speculative changes in notions of societies, cultures, and ecosystems in the transient nature of constantly shifting topography and geology.
There is a common thread with regard to visual abstraction in my artworks: the multiplicity of hybrid objects that unfold within their own spatiotemporal coordinates of phase space and are transcribed to an image plane. In that regard, the creative process of drawing can be defined as the swirls of virtual intensities that are reconfigured as the cartography of spatiotemporal transduction.
Furthermore, the varying scale, the juxtaposition of biomorphic forms, intertwined textures, oblique projections, and visual metamorphoses are employed as the multi-layered drawing methodologies to question and investigate the ubiquitous nature of urban meta-morphology, emerging realities of the digital hegemony, and their visual representation in the context of non-Euclidean configuration. The application of these techniques allows the work to transcend the boundaries between two- and multi-dimensional domains.
The process-oriented compositional techniques henceforth conjure up the synthetic possibilities of spatial semiotics that emerge as the potential products of metastable procedures. They imbue the work with what we see as the very essence of our socio-cultural environments beyond the conventional protocols of architectural and artistic formalities.