MAKO MIYAMOTO
THE SPECTRAL DIVIDE

NOVEMBER 2-30, 2018

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2018
7-10PM

ON VIEW
NOVEMBER 2-30, 2018

For more info about available works by Mako Miyamoto, please contact info@stephaniechefas.com

Payment plans are available upon request.

This November, Mako Miyamoto makes his highly anticipated return to Stephanie Chefas Projects with a new collection of work entitled The Spectral Divide. Inspired by the infrared light that exists just beyond the scope of one's naked eye, the show pulls back the skin on a previously unseen world. It's here in this desolate realm of infrared radiation--where colors like red and violet emanate with newfound warmth--that Miyamoto's fully-realized figures roam. As the artist brings us deeper into this seemingly alien terrain, the adjoining sensations of fear, danger, bewilderment, and curiosity remain utterly palpable. Meanwhile, the familiarity of each landscape provides a jarring reminder that this world is indeed just one step removed from our own, brushing past us like waves in the dark.

Consisting of both photography and a short film, The Spectral Divide is over 10 months in the making. To create the work, Miyamoto shot exclusively on a modified camera, capturing the infrared spectrum of light, and thereby providing an authentic glimpse into the parallel world that surrounds us. The more one looks, the more one can feel the infrared heat emanating from the frame, or find him or herself lost in the stark wilderness. Never before has Miyamoto delivered such a tangible feeling as he does here. In fact, you may never think of reality the same way again.

The opening reception for The Spectral Divide will be held at Stephanie Chefas Projects on Friday, November 2nd from 7-10pm. Stephanie Chefas Projects is located in Portland, Oregon at 305 SE 3rd Avenue on the second floor of the Urban Row building. The exhibition will be on view through November 30th, 2018 and is free and open to the public.

SHORT FILM

Inspired by the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum which exists beyond the visible spectrum of light discernible by the human eye, the works in the show speculate on the unseen world just outside of perception. The Spectral Divide explores the spaces that surround us but lie outside of our awareness, brushing past us like waves in the dark, a ghost caught in the frame between light and shadow. The infrared world exists at wavelengths that are longer than those of visible light, just beyond deep red in the light spectrum. What we consider color and light are in fact visible radiation; increasing in temperature from violet, the coolest, to deep red, the warmest. Infrared radiation is warmer still; the body can feel and react to it, but is unable to perceive it with the human eye. This radiation has the ability to penetrate the skin and reveal abnormalities, things that shift, change, or grow unseen within a body or environment. The work in this exhibition explores the spectral bodies that may exist beyond our knowing, an empire of lost senses wandering just below the skin of this world, bathed in a sea of infrared radiation. Captured over the last 10 months, The Spectral Divide documents this territory in and around the Pacific Northwest, shot exclusively on a camera modified to capture the infrared spectrum of light and provide a glimpse into the unseen world that surrounds us. Spectral figures haunt familiar yet unfamiliar landscapes, building their own collective history in a country of lost borders, wandering through the fabric of the invisible light.

ARTWORK

Featured

The Stone Forest II

Mako Miyamoto

photographic print on premium Archival Matte 230gsm 9.5mil

30 x 40 inches (31 x 41 inches framed)

sold

The Spectral Divide

Mako Miyamoto

photographic print on premium Archival Matte 230gsm 9.5mil

30 x 40 inches (31 x 41 inches framed)

sold

The Levant IV

Mako Miyamoto

photographic print on premium Archival Matte 230gsm 9.5mil

30 x 40 inches (31 x 41 inches framed)

info@stephaniechefas.com

Wy’East I

Mako Miyamoto

photographic print on premium Archival Matte 230gsm 9.5mil

30 x 40 inches (31 x 41 inches framed)

info@stephaniechefas.com