视觉艺术家,1995年出生于日本东京。他于2019年毕业于东京武蔵野美術大学油画系,获学士学位,并于2021年毕业于英国格拉斯哥美术学院纯艺术系,获硕士学位。目前工作与生活在格拉斯哥。
石川受到怀想理论影响,将纪念品理解为从外在转化为内在,即把空间与历史私人化的物件。被批量生产的,印有各地典型视觉符号的明信片正面,配合写有寄件人个人经历和传递给收件人的信息的背面,以一种二元对立的方式掌握着将复制物变成纪念品形式的原件的时刻。
他用作主题的明信片通常是已被使用的,从eBay和其他网站被忽视的角落中购置。而这些纪念品既刻画出一种隐喻式的原真性经验,同时也必须保持为不完整,以使得叙述的增补这一欲望的游戏成为可能。当人们面对纪念品,对过去进行怀念时,纪念品则构成对起源的永恒消耗,并同时生成了意义的剩余。石川的作品敏锐地洞察到这一充满浪漫主义色彩的,与绵延,而非时间,相关的现象,并以屏幕转译的方式虚构出这些在怀想中才成真的现实。
A visual artist born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1995. He graduated with a BA Degree in Oil Painting from Musashino Art University, Tokyo, in 2019 and a MA Degree in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art, UK, in 2021. Currently working and living in Glasgow.
Ishikawa was influenced by the theory of nostalgia, which argues that souvenirs transform the external into the internal, i.e., privatizing space and history. The front of the postcards, which are mass-produced and printed with typical visual symbols from around the world, paired with the back, which contains the sender's personal experience and the message conveyed to the recipient, masters the moment of transforming the copy into the original in the form of a souvenir dichotomously.
The postcards he uses as subjects are normally used, acquired from neglected corners of eBay and other sites. While these souvenirs portray a metaphorical experience of originality, they must also remain incomplete in order to make narrative additions as a game of desire possible. When people are confronted with souvenirs, nostalgic for the past, they constitute an eternal consumption of origins and simultaneously generate a surplus of signification. Ishikawa's work is keenly aware of this romanticized phenomenon, which is related to duration but not time, and fictionalizes these realities that only come true in nostalgia via the methodology of screen translation.