Imma s hyper-real appearance is central to the immaten exhibition at the Diesel Art Gallery in Tokyo. Photo: AFP
Just spend a few short moments on Instagram, and you re likely to come across a post from Imma. But the Japanese virtual model has momentarily moved beyond the realm of social media as the subject of the
immaten exhibition at the Diesel Art Gallery in Tokyo.
It s not always easy to distinguish the real from the fake with Imma. Since 2018, the Japanese virtual model has been maintaining an air of mystery with her Instagram posts, where over 328, 000 followers check out her ultra-realistic looks and styles.
About This Lot
Contemporary Japanese artist Kazuki Umezawa creates complex collages from found digital material. The chaotic array of images, occasionally layered with paint, presents a bombardment of visual information densely packed into a single frame. The artist deconstructs the specificity of original images and recontextualizes them to create drastically new forms and shapes. Born in 1985 in Saitama in Japan, Umezawa was raised in an artistic family. Determined to be an artist at an early age, Umezawa entered a special art track in high school. He attended Musashino Art University in Japan from 2005 to 2008, a time marked in Japanese popular culture for the dramatic expansion of the internet. The development of anonymous and online creative spaces inspired the artist’s style of endless appropriation, collage, and combinations of analog and digital processes. In 2009, Umezawa joined the collective Chaos Lounge, which was started by the artist Uso Fujishiro. The group aimed to