Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present a new online viewing room, Kelly Akashi: Contact Prints.
Serving as an introduction to Kelly Akashi's practice in photography, Contact Prints explores how we understand objects by indexing them in different states of existence. Utilizing her training and academic background in chemical, darkroom photography, Akashi reengaged her photographic practice alongside her early studies in glassblowing to reveal a new way to see her glass sculptures' materiality and makeup. While her sculptural practice has continued to consider the difficulty of defining and binding existence, her contact prints ask how we come to know the things that make up our world and how we can rethink our perceptions and definitions.