Hand Vote
2024
Hand Vote is a monumental multi-panel installation by Japanese American artist Kota Ezawa featuring a densely packed crowd of stylized figures with arms raised in unison, evoking collective civic participation and democratic process. The work is rendered in Ezawa's signature flat, graphic aesthetic using acrylic pigment print on shaped wood cutouts, creating a three-dimensional sculptural environment that blurs the boundary between image and object. The diverse cast of figures in formal attire lends the work a timeless, politically charged resonance. Offered in a rare edition of only 2, this large-scale installation is an exceptional acquisition for collectors of conceptually driven contemporary art.
- Medium
- acrylic pigment print on wood
- Dimensions
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Fraenkel Gallery
Notes
Overall installed dimensions: 96 x 120 x 48 inches (243.8 x 304.8 x 121.9 cm). Edition of 2. Price available upon inquiry via Fraenkel Gallery website.
Spotted works by Kota Ezawa
Artists in conversation
Richard Prince
American · b. 1949
Prince similarly appropriates and rephotographs existing images from media and popular culture to critique how images circulate and accumulate meaning, producing flat conceptual works that interrogate originality and remix culture through photographic and lightbox formats.
Douglas Gordon
Scottish · b. 1966
Gordon works extensively with appropriated cinematic imagery and lightbox installations, recontextualizing film stills and iconic visual media into cool toned conceptual pieces that examine how images from screens shape cultural memory and perception.
Christian Marclay
American · b. 1955
Marclay shares Ezawa's preoccupation with remixing and reanimating imagery from film, photography, and popular media into conceptual art that critically examines how visual and cultural languages are constructed and reproduced across contemporary media formats.
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