KOHEI NAWA

PixCell

In the "PixCell" series of sculptures, transparent spheres (cells) are used to cover the surface of an object, transforming it into PixCells (pixels + cells). The object (motif) is acquired through the internet and given a skin of a large, indeterminate number of cells, resembling an image (a group of pixels) on a computer monitor. When the object is completely covered with spheres (cells) of various sizes, dividing its skin into individual cells (PixCells), it is ready to be ‘viewed’ through lenses that enlarge and distort it. This series, whose origin was influenced by globalism and the growing significance of data, produces a visual and tactile experience that queries the reality of the skin of the object, while reflecting the relationship between the digital camera lens and the object that is digitized by it.

*PixCell: Pixel (picture element) + Cell ("PixCell" is a term coined by Nawa)

PixCell-Unicorn

2024
Mixed media
155 × 250 × 250 mm

PixCell-Mandarin Duck#2

2024
Mixed media
228 × 318 × 154 mm

PixCell-Random #07

2024
Mixed media, wooden frame
406 × 587 × 30 mm

PixCell-Owl/Cushion/Trivet/Table

2023
mixed media
1281 × 498 × 501 mm

PixCell-Bantam/Chair

2023
mixed media
1193 × 441 × 562 mm

PixCell-Perfume Bottle/Medicine Bottle/Murex/Stand

2023
mixed media
1415 × 393 × 396 mm

PixCell-Deer#69/PixCell-Bambi#24 (Aurora)

2021 / 2022
Mixed media
644 × 650 × 650 mm
2097 × 1566 × 783 mm

Pixcell-Contrabass (Mica)

2020
Mixed media
2186 × 1162 × 1162 mm

PixCell-Maria#19

2017
Mixed media
639 × 475 × 475 mm

PixCell-Deer#28
PixCell-Double Deer#6
PixCell-Deer#29

2012
Mixed media
1395 × 695 × 674 mm
2115 × 1920 × 1600 mm
1258 × 770 × 630 mm
Collection of Leeum Museum, Seoul, South Korea

PixCell-RGB-Picture#2

2009
Mixed media
425 × 545 × 165 mm