StolenSpace Gallery is pleased to welcome back Shigeki Matsuyama for his solo show Quiet Circulation bringing together works that meditate on our everyday encounters with images and information.
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Quiet Circulation examines how images and information move through digital networks, subtly reshaping meaning and identity in ways that often escape our notice. The exhibition presents works that transform and detach from their origins to enter new contexts—a circulation that is constant, pervasive, yet strangely invisible.
Through a process of using facial photographs found among countless selfies uploaded online, and projecting eyes onto some of these silhouettes whose race, sex, hairstyle, or body shape differ from the originals. Shigeki recombines portraits to reflect the anonymity and uncertain veracity of information on the Internet. Through his distinct style, his work prompts viewers to consider that the eyes they see may belong to people they know—or even themselves highlighting growing concerns around technologies where identity becomes increasingly fluid, authorship ambiguous and personal data permanently embedded in electronic systems.
In parallel, works created through a verbal dialogue with ChatGPT, Shikegi addresses the spread of misinformation by cutting out fragments of existing paintings. From concept to visual direction, this language-based exchange with the AI shaped each piece from its initial stages. The excisions represent phenomena observed in early fake news dissemination: the use of bots to enhance credibility, and how AI facilitates the detachment of information from its original context, making the process itself a reflection of how meaning circulates and mutates through automated systems.
The exhibition offers a moment to reconsider our everyday encounters with images and information—the quiet circulation that continuously influences how we see, judge, and understand the world.
