Ezra Asohan
Ezra Asohan is a photographer, video installation and assemblage artist who has exhibited in the United States and internationally in the United Kingdom, Chile, South Korea, and Germany...
Ezra Asohan is a photographer, video installation and assemblage artist who has exhibited in the United States and internationally in the United Kingdom, Chile, South Korea, and Germany. His recent exhibitions include the Recitation Gallery in Newark, Las Laguna Art Gallery in California, The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, Galeria Municipal De Valparaiso in Chile, CICA Museum in Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Felt Photographic Gallery in London, Galerie Im Körnerpark in Berlin, University of Delaware in Newark, Ferris State University Fine Art Gallery in Big Rapids, Michigan, and New York Center for Photographic Arts. Ezra has been published by Print It! and Analog Forever Magazine.
With a body of work ranging from video installation, photography, and assemblage, Ezra Asohan uses a variety of mediums to explore how light, texture, and symbolism relate to contemporary experiences as well as identity. His video installations are elaborate and usually contain custom-designed projectors which often emanate multiple videos at a time within a gallery space. Within these images the viewer will find videos of birds chirping amongst a display of angular optical and multiple distortions as well as the manipulation of light. Other videos will display vintage Bollywood movies in multiple spliced formats at a time.
The analogue photography typically portrays folds of fabric laid upon a rugged landscape. These scenes are not meant to be attractive but rather emblematic of the raw power of nature. The conceptual use of fiber fabric to lay upon and hang among trees, foliage, and rock conveys deep philosophical contemporary interpretations of leftover remnants of time and space. Similarly, Ezra’s assemblage work displays collages of found objects, much like the improvised fabric. Within the assemblages, the viewer will find diagrams, music sheets, maps, and even photography. These particular works seem to convey an overload of information regarding everything from the sciences to the arts. As a result, the assemblage works are representative of analogue processes interpreting the overflow of digitized information.
Personal Revisionist Histories Installation (pictured above) contains projections of maps along with strung up photography laid upon and across the walls and ceiling of a gallery. The piece, like so many of his works, exemplifies reactions to sensory experiences regarding space and location with the projection of maps. A highly conceptual work which evokes unfamiliarity and an instilling of new experience.
Ezra Asohan communicates deep inclinations on how sensory objects and symbols represent our individual as well as collective psyche. His format contains mysterious applications and represents sound, motion, and solace. His video installations are probably his most remarkable works as they present interactive experiences through multiple projections and distortions simultaneously. Ezra explores realms of visual actualization and creates his own mythology and sense of symbolism to redirect environments such as the natural world within his photography. Through objects and diagrams, he implements a conceptual plan which invokes both mystery and wonder.
