Exploring Perception and Reality with Kota Ezawa

Kota Ezawa, History of Photography Remix, 2004-6; slide projection; collection of the Hirshhorn.

I was looking for some kind of visual, moving image form that puts a stress on ideas rather than just on reality, and I find that animation is capable of that, because everything that you see in animated film is the idea of the maker  — nothing just kind of ends up there.

From the German Absolute Film movement to MTV and Prince’s Sign “O” the Times, Kota Ezawa — FOR-SITE’s Fall 2013 education program Educator — discusses his influences and desire to explore in his work the thin — sometimes virtually invisible — boundary between perception and reality lying within images.  Listen to the Hirshhorn’s Meet the Artist: Kota Ezawa podcast.