ABOUT
SARA PAO (aka Asami Watanabe) is the finalist of Gaffa Photo Fest Competition 2016. She was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, currently based in Sydney Australia. She studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Photography at Nihon University for a few years then dropped out, after that, she moved to Sydney, Australia in 2009. She completed a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology at the University of Technology Sydney in 2018. Although Environmental Science was completely different from Arts, she had to learn because simply she loves nature and the ocean! She also attended workshops, The edit by Rachel Knepfer who is an ex-Director of Photography at Rolling Stone magazine, and Projects & Stories by Martin Mischkulnig at Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) in 2018. She started her NFT projects as Ge:mini (Twitter @Geminixphoto) in September 2021.
Her photography explores something beyond emotion, something that is not yet visible but is or was already there, it could be something coincidental, latent or universal.
Also, it is the result of the reaction between the layers of space-time and the physical visual information in front of her eyes - present -, which is transmitted to her brain via lenses and then her eyes.
Firstly, the emergence from unconscious envisions (these unconscious envisions could be in present perfect or present perfect Continuous ) occurs then the synchronicity begins. This synchronicity could be indefinite.
She calls these processes below.
桃源郷(TōGen-Kyō) : No one can reach TōGen-Kyō unless you never want it, If you want it badly, you will never find it. Never exist physically, it is in your mind.
Contact
Sara Pao(Asami Watanabe)
+61 425 532 613
hotsarapao@gmail.com
@hotsarapao (Instagram, currently not available)
Education
2006 Nihon University College of Art major in Bachelor of Photography
2018 University of Technology Sydney major in Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology
NFT Projects
2022 WHO WE ARE 200 by Obscura
Art Fair
2021 The Other Art Fair in Sydney, Australia
Media
2020 Art Edit Magazine Issue24 Autumn
Group Exhibition
2016 Photofest at Gaffa Gallery
2018 2018 Ilford CCP Salon at Contemporary Centre for Photography
Photostart at Australian Centre for Photography
2019 Botanical : Spring at Brunswick Street Gallery
2019 Ilford CCP Salon at Contemporary Centre for Photography
感情よりもより一歩先にあるまだ見えないけれども既にそこにあるもしくはあったもの、それは偶然性のものなのか潜在的なものなのかそれとも普遍的なものなのかは分からない、何かしらのそれを探求しています。
時空のレイヤーとレンズと眼を介在して脳に伝達される彼女の目の前にある物理的視覚情報-現在-。この反応の結果が彼女の写真である。
まず、無意識の間に思い描いていたもの（この無意識の構想は、現在完了でも現在完了連続でもよい）が出現する瞬間、そしてその彼女の眼の前にある光景 - 現在 -でシンクロニシティが始まる。このシンクロニシティは一旦始まると永続的に続く。