What Is the First Image You Remember?
Z-2024open call
︎ what: collective exhibition
︎ who: no restrictions
︎ when: TBC ( Beginning of 2025 )
︎ where: ZERO art space, Tokyo ( JP )
︎ submission fee: 10 $ single image / 25 $ series
︎ deadline: 20 December 2024
︎ announcement of selected works: 30 January 2025
Photographers, artists, authors, and designers from anywhere in the world can submit their work, without any limitations on age, approach, or technique.
Whether it is a single photo, a series, a drawing, or mixed-media, anything that can be printed on paper is acceptable for submission.
After the payment is completed, you will receive a link containing detailed instructions for uploading your files.
Whether it is a single photo, a series, a drawing, or mixed-media, anything that can be printed on paper is acceptable for submission.
After the payment is completed, you will receive a link containing detailed instructions for uploading your files.
︎Overview
"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart." — Haruki Murakami
What Is the First Image You Remember?
This open call invites artists to reflect on the complex and shifting nature of memory—its fleeting qualities and its role in shaping our perception of the world. Artists are encouraged to revisit their earliest visual memories and examine how memory intertwines reality with imagination, merging past and present. This open call welcomes explorations of remembrance, imagination, and nostalgia, raising questions about how memories form, evolve, and influence our understanding.
︎Intent
The call seeks works that capture the hazy, fragmented essence of memory. It aims to investigate memory's evolution over time, its emotional resonance, and its impact on our vision. Artists are encouraged to submit photography, video, multimedia, or visual arts that explore the interplay between the tangible and the ethereal, the deeply personal and the broadly relatable.
︎Mission
Building upon the themes of our previous exhibition, ‘You’re Innocent in Your Dreams’, which explored the surreal dimensions of the subconscious, What Is the First Image You Remember? shifts focus to the uncertain nature of memory and its influence on self-awareness and our perception of the world. This exhibition aims to create a visual dialogue that reflects the complexities of memory, revealing its transformative power in both personal and collective contexts.
︎Keywords
1.Memory 2.Nostalgia 3.Imagination 4.Remembrance 5.Fragmentation 6.Reality 7.Perception 8.Transformation
This overview is intended to provide context, not to limit your artistic expression. You may choose to focus on any single aspect of these themes/keywords.
Should the curators deem it necessary, you will be asked for additional text to contextualize your submission.
︎Selected participants
Selected artists will have their work exhibit in a group exhibition, the artwork for the exhibition will be printed by zerofeedback.
Additionally, each selected artist will receive a catalogue of the exhibition, with only the shipping costs to be covered by the artist.
The exhibition will take place at Zero art space in Tokyo.
Stay tuned for more details.
> For any inquiry regarding this open call write to: opencalls @ zrfdbck.com
> To ensure to keep you updated, all email addresses provided by submitters will be added to our mailing list.
"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart." — Haruki Murakami
What Is the First Image You Remember?
This open call invites artists to reflect on the complex and shifting nature of memory—its fleeting qualities and its role in shaping our perception of the world. Artists are encouraged to revisit their earliest visual memories and examine how memory intertwines reality with imagination, merging past and present. This open call welcomes explorations of remembrance, imagination, and nostalgia, raising questions about how memories form, evolve, and influence our understanding.
︎Intent
The call seeks works that capture the hazy, fragmented essence of memory. It aims to investigate memory's evolution over time, its emotional resonance, and its impact on our vision. Artists are encouraged to submit photography, video, multimedia, or visual arts that explore the interplay between the tangible and the ethereal, the deeply personal and the broadly relatable.
︎Mission
Building upon the themes of our previous exhibition, ‘You’re Innocent in Your Dreams’, which explored the surreal dimensions of the subconscious, What Is the First Image You Remember? shifts focus to the uncertain nature of memory and its influence on self-awareness and our perception of the world. This exhibition aims to create a visual dialogue that reflects the complexities of memory, revealing its transformative power in both personal and collective contexts.
︎Keywords
1.Memory 2.Nostalgia 3.Imagination 4.Remembrance 5.Fragmentation 6.Reality 7.Perception 8.Transformation
This overview is intended to provide context, not to limit your artistic expression. You may choose to focus on any single aspect of these themes/keywords.
Should the curators deem it necessary, you will be asked for additional text to contextualize your submission.
︎Selected participants
Selected artists will have their work exhibit in a group exhibition, the artwork for the exhibition will be printed by zerofeedback.
Additionally, each selected artist will receive a catalogue of the exhibition, with only the shipping costs to be covered by the artist.
The exhibition will take place at Zero art space in Tokyo.
Stay tuned for more details.
> For any inquiry regarding this open call write to: opencalls @ zrfdbck.com
> To ensure to keep you updated, all email addresses provided by submitters will be added to our mailing list.
