Andrea Samory is a Tokyo based visual artist, born in 1991 in Italy.He is an alumnus of The University of Tokyo, and he has previously worked for Kengo Kuma and Kohei Nawa.He has exhibited in Italy, Japan, Taiwan and Australia,...
Read MoreAndrea Samory is a Tokyo based visual artist, born in 1991 in Italy.
He is an alumnus of The University of Tokyo, and he has previously worked for Kengo Kuma and Kohei Nawa.
He has exhibited in Italy, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, and has been featured in several international websites and zines.
His practice is based on a post-internet vision of art as the process of materializing virtual images and intangible forces.
He focuses on the biological body in relation to the stereotypical concept of nature, and on how familiar images, when released from their idealized context, can become a mirror for collective anxieties and expectations towards the future.
In his work, the philosophies of Speculative Realism and Assemblage Theory get infused into the genres of Sci-Fi, Body Horror, Cosmic Horror and Magical Realism – an aesthetic created as a response to nowadays incessant flux of both dystopic and utopic information regarding global society, climate, politics, technology.
The recurring themes of growth, entropy, mythology and human hybris are given shape through the recombination, aggregation, distortion, and assemblage of natural textures and figures.
He combines 3d sculpting and 3d printing with SFX and more traditional sculpting techniques, to attract the viewer into a world of natural corruption and uncannyness - provoking the ambivalent feelings of repulsion and fascination, alienation and recognition.
