red spectrum - Shohei Fujimoto / 藤元翔平

Material: Mixed media (Acrylic board, Plastic spheres, Stainless spheres, Aluminum bolts, Stainless bolts)

This work is an attempt to hold, in a static structure, the relationship between light and perception that the artist has explored through laser-based installations. The red laser lines that once emerged and disappeared over time are no longer presented as events, but as traces held in a suspended state.

[A laser-based installation, “intangible #form” (since 2020)]

The black spheres that appear as if seeping out from the surface of the panel serve as material signs given to what was once invisible. Lines that could exist only as visual phenomena are translated into a tangible structure through the smallest possible unit of volume. Rather than fixing the line itself, these spheres function as a device that temporarily anchors the act of seeing.

The placement of the spheres is derived from algorithms based on physical simulation. Their positions exist in a subtle state between control and contingency, shaped by conditions rather than by direct compositional intention.

At the same time, every black sphere is attached to the surface by the artist’s own hand, one by one. Positions determined through computation are fixed only after passing through bodily action, and the time spent in this process quietly settles into the structure. Abstract calculation and personal time are layered here without hierarchy.

red spectrum - installation view

The surface of the panel is covered with countless circles generated through an algorithm, each oriented toward the nearest black sphere. In this way, the printed plane is integrated into the same physical structure as the three-dimensional elements.

In addition to the black spheres, silver spheres are also placed on the surface. Their reflective skins capture ambient light, surrounding colors, and the faint image of the viewer. While the structure itself remains fixed, it continuously absorbs its environment.

Through this absorption, the viewer can no longer remain entirely outside the work. The act of seeing is gently reversed, and perception emerges not as a one-way operation, but as a reciprocal movement.

As a whole, the work holds, on a single plane, the image that arises in the moment of perception. By layering light, material, computation, and the presence of the viewer, the artist quietly renders visible the friction inherent in how we come to perceive the world as real.

[Title: red spectrum #5, Year: 2026, Size W:31, H:31, D:5 cm, Production support: YOKOITO INC.(Kyoto/Japan), Weight: 3 kg]