Untitled (After Igor Kostin and Yoshio Matsushige):
This project sets out from two appropriated photographs which bear the material traces of exposure to radioactive radiation. In Igor Kostin’s case, from the explosion of the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor, and in Yoshio Matushige’s case from the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In order to further explore the material conditions and properties of noise within these images, they have been bound together through a process of denoising. In Kostin’s case, the coloured noise of his original image has been algorithmically removed, causing the large majority of the image to be in many ways machine generated. The subsequent image is then Gel Transferred across two seems on a board, replacing the coloured noise of Kostin’s original with the white flecks of Matsushige’s. In Matushiges case, the white flecks of noise have been replaced by coloured pixels, applied by mioring the image, by taking a photograph of the photograph on a screen, before gel transfering it.
‘Untitled (After Igor Kostin)’, was shown as part of ‘Lighting Field’ at the Glasgow School of Art.