{"product_id":"taketo-muroi-afterimage-1","title":"Taketo Muroi - Afterimage 1","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"622\" data-start=\"406\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTechnique:\u003c\/strong\u003e Promptography on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eImage size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 45 x 30 cm\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3 + 1 AP\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAfterimage 1\u003c\/i\u003e forms the conceptual basis of Taketo Murois's \u003ci\u003eAfterimage\u003c\/i\u003e series. The image is divided into two distinct but interdependent areas. On the left, a dense, rugged mass appears—dark, tactile, almost geological—as residue, accumulation, matter that has already undergone a transformation. On the right, a muted, almost monochrome surface opens into emptiness, interrupted only by a faint vertical line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThis separation is not decorative, but structural. It marks the moment when the image splits into origin and continuation, event and echo. What may once have been a coherent photographic scene can no longer be reconstructed. Instead, we encounter its aftereffects: sediment on one side, atmosphere on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e As the first work in the series \u003ci\u003e, Afterimage 1\u003c\/i\u003e presents photography more as a temporal condition than as a representational act. The image doesn't hold together; it drifts apart. AI functions here as a force of redistribution—processing, diluting, and shifting visual information until its meaning becomes unstable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e This logic is repeated and modified throughout the entire \u003ci\u003eAfterimage\u003c\/i\u003e series. But here, at the beginning, the gesture is clear: the photograph no longer ends at its frame. It continues as matter, memory, and absence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAfterimage 1\u003c\/i\u003e is not an image of something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e It is the moment after the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AI - EDITION BERLIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56707406692687,"sku":null,"price":900.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2826\/3759\/files\/Afterimage-1.jpg?v=1766931931","url":"https:\/\/ai-edition-berlin.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/taketo-muroi-afterimage-1","provider":"AI - EDITION BERLIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}