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Aomori	2021-02-13 18:49:00 UTC	22	image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Blue-Tree-2017.jpg *Blue Tree*, 2017 106cm x 86cm Archival Giclée print Bespoke white frame Edition of 5 + 2AP medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Forest-III,-2017.jpg *Forest III*, 2017 156cm x 126cm Archival Giclée print Bespoke white frame Edition of 5 \+ 1AP medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Forest-V,-2017.jpg *Forest V*, 2017 186cm x 149cm Archival Giclée print Bespoke white frame Edition of 3 \+ 1AP medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Dissipate-I,-2017.jpg *Dissipate I*, 2017 126cm x 156cm Archival Giclée print Bespoke white frame Edition of 5 \+ 1AP medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Dissipate-II,-2017.jpg *Dissipate II*, 2017 126cm x 156cm Archival Giclée print Bespoke white frame Edition of 5 \+ 1AP medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Forest-II,-2017.jpg *Forest II*, 2017 44cm x 36cm Archival Giclée print Bespoke white frame Edition of 9 \+ 2AP medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Forest-I,-2017.jpg *Forest I*, 2017 44cm x 36cm Archival Giclée print Bespoke white frame Edition of 9 \+ 2AP medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Waterfall-I,-2017.jpg *Waterfall I*, 2017 78cm x 63cm Archival Giclée print Bespoke white frame Edition of 7 \+ 2AP medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Waterfall-II,-2017.jpg *Waterfall II*, 2017 106cm x 86cm Archival Giclée print Bespoke white frame Edition of 5 \+ 2AP medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Waterfall-III,-2017.jpg *Waterfall III*, 2017 63cm x 78cm Archival Giclée print Bespoke white frame Edition of 7 \+ 2AP medium middle medium image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/The-Eye-Sees,-Arles-2---Alexander-Mourant---2020.jpg The Eye Sees, Arles, 2020 Entractes 14: *When the Image Returns to Glass* *Waterfall III*, 2017 medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/The-Eye-Sees,-Arles---Alexander-Mourant---2020.jpg The Eye Sees, Arles, 2020 Entractes 14: *When the Image Returns to Glass* *Waterfall III*, 2017 medium middle medium image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Aomori-Install-8.jpg Unseen Amsterdam, 2018 Seen Fifteen Gallery presents *Aomori* *Dissipate I*, 2017; *Dissipate II*, 2017; *Forest IV*, 2017 medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Aomori-Install-6.jpg medium middle medium image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Copeland-Gallery-3---Alexander-Mourant---2019-ca7a3a.jpg Copeland Gallery, 2019 *Where You Are Not* *Waterfall I*, 2017; *Blue Tree*, 2017; *Dissipate I*, 2017; *Forest V*, 2017 medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Copeland-Gallery---Alexander-Mourant---2019.jpg Copeland Gallery, 2019 *Where You Are Not* *Forest III*, 2017; *Dissipate II*, 2017; *City II*, 2017 medium middle xsmall image video caption-text image-size image-position image-margin-right /uploads/Copeland-Gallery---Alexander-Mourant---2019%202.jpg Copeland Gallery, 2019 *Where You Are Not* *Forest III*, 2017; *Dissipate II*, 2017; *City II*, 2017 medium middle	interview-text # Aomori <br> <br> Taken in Japan, *Aomori* follows a consistent trajectory in the history of art, where the colour blue is used as a demarcation of distance. Here, distance is not only visible through sweeping vistas and dense forests, but also reverberates in the knowledge that the artist worked in a country that was not his own. This results in a paradox, where spatial remoteness and distance simultaneously evoke an emotional closeness, for both the artist and the viewer.<br> <br> Just as you enter a forest and become surrounded by ancient branches and roots, the photographs by Alexander Mourant engulf you in a similar way, taking you on a mysterious voyage where both sorrow and beauty are tied together. The result is a silent mediation on space, both physically, in what is being photographed, and also in regard to time. These photographs feel ancient and respectful, just as the forests and hills have taken centuries to form. It seems as though their very essence has taken a physical form.<br> <br> *Aomori* is the Japanese for ‘blue forest’ - a literal translation of many of the works. Achieved in camera by using a church’s stained glass window - which was cut to make a lens filter - the spiritual history of the process seeps through into the image, to a time when the land was a place of worship. The blue is therefore not just for aesthetic effect, but pulses the landscapes. As the American writer Rebecca Solnit writes, ‘The world is blue at its edges and in its depths’. <br> <br> Introduction by Susan Bright, originally for the solo exhibition *Aomori*, The Old Truman Brewery, 2018.	project