Andrea Samory
Andrea Samory is a visual artist based in Tokyo. Born in Italy, he is a University of Tokyo alumnus, and has previously worked for Kengo Kuma and Kohei Nawa. Since his first solo exhibition in 2023, he has exhibited in Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, and several other countries.
Samory’s approach to art employs familiar yet uncanny images to create a mirror for collective fears and expectations towards the future. He combines animation, 3D sculpting and 3D printing with SFX sculpting techniques, to materialize the virtual tropes influencing our collective subconscious.
In his work, the philosophies of Speculative Realism and Assemblage Theory get infused into the genres of Sci-Fi, Body Horror, Cosmic Horror and Magical Realism - a narrative created as a response to nowadays incessant flux of both dystopic and utopic information regarding global society, climate, politics, technology.
His vocabulary takes advantage of shiny, soft and colorful materials to attract the viewer into a world of natural corruption and uncannyness - provoking the ambivalent feelings of repulsion and fascination, alienation and familiarity, recognition and corruption. This approach takes inspiration from how virality (both as a biology-related concept and an internet-related concept), and intangible forces in general, shape our everyday lives.
The recurring themes of growth, entropy, mythology and human hybris are given shape through the recombination, aggregation, distortion, and assemblage of natural textures and figures. He combines 3d sculpting and 3d printing with SFX and more traditional sculpting techniques, to attract the viewer into a world of natural corruption and uncannyness - provoking the ambivalent feelings of repulsion and fascination, alienation and recognition.
Portrait of Andrea Samory. Courtesy of the artist.
