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March 24, 2012

Interface: Statement

Interface

This series investigates the humanness that can be found in mechanical objects. With a fresh perspective, the images uncover anthropomorphic qualities, as if fresh eyes are winking back from unexpected places. This series also investigates the mechanical nature of human perception. Pareidolia is the scientific term for the brain’s process of finding significance in vague or random stimuli—finding animals in clouds is a common example. Carl Sagan hypothesized that human beings are “hard-wired” via early evolution to identify the human face as a survival technique.

How can photography make the invisible visible? In this case, the part of our brain that unconsciously strains to find a face and, by the same token, the matching part of the industrial designers’ brain that guided them to unconsciously design an object with a face in it. These objects are a reflection of the people that anonymously build the cities around us; that anonymously roam the cities around us.

Presenting many images allows the viewer to strengthen their skill at face recognition as if it is a kind of perceptive muscle. You may find that you start to see these faces everywhere, and perhaps also be aware of other processes of perception.

(shorter version of statement)

 

インターフェイス

人工的なモノの中に宿る人間らしさを探求するシリーズ。

予期せぬ場所からまるでウィンクされたかのように、ヒトの顔があちこちにこの写真のフレームから浮き上がる。

人間の感知力のメカニカルな側面も、このシリーズを撮影する上で探究された。人間の知覚には『パレイドリア』という、ランダムで曖昧な刺激に意味を見出す脳のプロセスが発見されている。雲の形に動物を見出すのが一般的な例である。 天文学者カール・セーガンは、人は進化の初期から「ハードワイヤード」されており、顔を見つけることが生存術として組み込まれている、という仮説を立てている。

顔を見つけようと無意識に作動する私たちの脳の部分。顔のある物体を無意識のうちにデザインしたインダストリアルデザイナーの脳。相互の無意識の偶然の重なりが、写真によって可視化される。顔のようなオブジェはまるで都市を築き上げた名もない人々のように見え、私たちの周りを徘徊している・・・。

多くの顔のオブジェの写真を見ることによって、もしかしたら一種の知覚筋力のように、顔認識のスキルを強化することができるかもしれない。 このようにしてどこにでも顔が見えてくるようになるかもしれないし、他の感知のプロセスにも気づくきっかけにもなるかもしれない。

2024: この展覧会は京都の「フェイスハウス」で開催中。 50年前に山下和正氏が設計したこの建物自体が、日常のものから顔を作る喜びの象徴となっている。

Ari Salomon

Born in Israel and relocating to the United States at a young age, he discovered his passion for photography during his high school years in San Diego. In 1993, he earned a B.A. in Art History with a concentration on contemporary art theory and studio photography from UCSC, inspired by great professors such as Victor Burgin and Geoffrey Batchen. Most summers he resides in Japan, where he explores the dense urban landscape.

Recent solo exhibitions featured the series 6 Feet Apart at the Head On Photo Festival in Sydney and the Transmission Gallery in San Francisco.  Recent group exhibitions include The New World at Minnesota Street Project (curated by Sandra Philips) and  Uncanny Beauty at Harvey Milk Photography Center (curated by Emmanuelle Namont).

His early artistic journey saw recognition in various exhibitions, notably at Jen Bekman Gallery, Gen Art, and the SFMOMA Artists Gallery. The Motion Studies series received solo exhibitions at 4×5 Gallery, Dzine and at KG+ in 2020.

Ari Salomon’s work is rooted in reinterpreting the tradition of street photography. He takes the performative process of discovering candid people and places and gives it a twist. He is also interested in how photography can reveal the nature and limitations of human perception. His projects are often very different in form but share a conceptual interest in what photography can reveal about shared experience and the gap between perception and understanding.

 

アリ・サロモン

イスラエル生まれ。幼い頃にアメリカ、サンディエゴに移住し、高校時代にアーティスティック・フォトグラフィーの撮影を始める。 カリフォルニア州立大学サンタクルーズ校で現代美術理論と写真を学ぶ。 現在は日本に夏の間滞在し密集した都市空間の撮影を続けている。

アリ・サロモンの作品は、ストリートフォトグラフィーの伝統の再解釈を目指す。 パフォーマンスアートのプロセスのように、サロモン自身が主体となって人々や場所を発見し、そこに独創性を加えている。 また、写真が人間の知覚の特性と限界をどのように明らかにできるか、という課題に対して挑戦し続けている。作品の多くは、人間の共通の経験、もしくは人と人との間で起こるの認識と理解のギャップについて写真を通じて明らかにしようとしている。

最近の個展:ヘッド・オン・フォトフェスティバル(シドニー)、トランスミッションギャラリー(サンフランシスコ)。 グループ展:ミネソタ・ストリート・プロジェクト(サンフランシスコ)、ハービー・ミルク・センター(サンフランシスコ)。

過去の作品展:ジェン・ベクマン・ギャラリー、ジェン・アート、SFMOMA アーティスト・ギャラリー、4×5 Gallery、Dzine、KG+

 

 

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Ari Salomon is a fine art photographer working in San Francisco.

Recent Exhibitions

  • Burn Line at Nohga Hotel Kyoto — KG+ / GOJO+ Award
  • Luminous at KG+ Kyoto, with Samurai Foto
  • A Measure of Uncertainty at Harvey Milk Photo Center
  • Change at the Magnes Collection
  • Pingyao International Photography Festival

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  • “Lasting Evidence”: featured in Professional Photographer magazine
  • Float Magazine Instagram Takeover
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Exhibitions

  • Burn Line at Nohga Hotel Kyoto — KG+ / GOJO+ Award

    4/18 – 5/17, 2026, Solo Exhibition

  • Luminous at KG+ Kyoto, with Samurai Foto

    4/21 – 5/3, 2026

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6 Feet Apart #6feetapartarisalomon #accidentalart 6 Feet Apart

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#accidentalart #covidart #FinlandCovid
You are witnessing a quintessential Finnish univer You are witnessing a quintessential Finnish university tradition: student orientation and “appro” events.
Early September marks the start of the academic year at Tampere University and TAMK (Tampere University of Applied Sciences). You are seeing thousands of new and returning students participating in orientation week activities and citywide orientation rallies (fuksi suunnistus).
What to Know About the Tradition
 * The Colorful Overalls (Haalarit): The boiler suits or overalls are the official uniform of Finnish university students. The color indicates their field of study—for example, red for medicine, dark blue for computer science, yellow for psychology, or white for business.
 * The Fabric Patches: Students customize their overalls over their entire academic career by sewing on embroidered patches collected from events, student guilds, and parties.
 * The “Treasure Hunt”: The small groups you see navigating the city with maps or phones are participating in an orientation checkpoint rally. Groups complete funny challenges, trivia, or team-building games at stations hosted by older students across parks and public squares to earn points and collectible patches.
Walking through @backlight_fi in Tampere, Finland Walking through @backlight_fi in Tampere, Finland 🇫🇮 — one of the Nordic region’s longest-running photography festivals (since 1987). A little tour, artist by artist.

Grateful to have connected with @tasumaniemi (Executive Director, Nykyaika/Backlight), Liisa Mäkinen (festival producer), and artist-curator Anna Ruth of @akkigalleria — whose “Art without Transportation” project is producing one of the installations

Incredible work on view from @angelo_katerina  @jo_duck  @davidellingsenphoto @joelr.jj @lecercle @andreduane @rafael.roncato @areyoushure_ @timowright @sheungyiuphoto @aminyosefi  and Jakob Ganslmeier (@jakob_ganslmeier ) of Ganslmeier & Zibelnik.

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#Backlight2026 #Tampere #PhotoFestival #FineArtPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Nykytaiteen muse Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma @kiasmamuseum  so great to see Finnish artists and Sami artists and other “ friends “
@batrayz amazing exhibition of red, white and blu @batrayz  amazing exhibition of red, white and blue frozen unfree sea life. There’s a lot happening just under the surface @small.works.sf 

The Gallery is upstairs from the beautiful framing shop and I don’t know how long the exhibition will be up for, but it just opened tonight so contact them and go check it out
Announcing! I will have a new project for this exh Announcing! I will have a new project for this exhibition in January 

Shifting Worlds: A Photography Exchange

January 9 – March 28, 2027
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek @bedfordgallery 

移りゆく世界

Shifting Worlds brings together artists from the Bay Area Photographers Collective @bapcsf and Samurai Foto @samurai.foto from Japan in a dialogue about movement and impermanence. Across geographies, these photographers attend to a world in constant transition, where light shifts, environments evolve, and change is the only constant. Curated by @artalatrinca
Two wonderful solo shows @500cappstreet by @andy_ Two wonderful solo shows @500cappstreet  by @andy_vogt_studio who saved a discarded door from the house and brought it to life on the deck. And @amyclairet who brings beauty from distressed and discarded objects in a poetic way. Best show of the year.
Great show ending today - congratulations @ishancl Great show ending today - congratulations @ishanclemenco for finding the pieces and putting them together
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