10 by 8 (black.crawl)

Name: 10 by 8 (black.crawl) - Carrie Yamaoka
Brand: Keijiban
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Carrie Yamaoka

2026

Black vinyl film, urethane resin

25.4 x 20.3 cm

Edition of 12 copies (all unique) numbered and signed by the artist, plus 1 artist’s proof and 1 publisher’s proof

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The edition

This edition is representative of the works Carrie Yamaoka has developed over many years in order to give form—through both visual and tactile poetry—to chemical operations and physical processes that often go unnoticed. By applying resin to a black vinyl film, she allows a play of liquid affinity and repulsion to emerge: the material spreads and withdraws, tracing out a surface in precarious balance, held in a state of continuous transformation.
This way of fixing movement—not to tame it, but rather to preserve its potential— recalls the logic of the photographic snapshot: a freeze-frame that suspends time without canceling it, maintaining it in a perpetual present. This reference also surfaces in the materials and processes—which evoke the chemical reactions inherent to analog photographic development—and in the very dimensions of the work. The 8 × 10 inch format, long dominant in photography and closely associated with the large-format camera, inscribes the piece within the technical and conceptual history of the medium. To this exploration of photography’s depths is added a play of surface: reflections, iridescence, and subtle shifts in light engage the viewer’s gaze and invite a speculative experience in which perception and projection converge.

The artist

Carrie Yamaoka was born in 1957 in New York State and grew up partly in Japan. She lives in New York.

Working at the intersection of different media, Carrie Yamaoka has, since the 1980s, developed a practice grounded in a sustained attention to surface, materiality, and process. Subjecting materials such as resins, polyester films, inks, mirrors, adhesives, and industrial substrates to chemical reactions, technical interventions, atmospheric conditions, and the gradual work of time, she brings into visibility states of mutability, transience, erasure, and regeneration.
Central to her practice is a singular use of reflective surfaces that both absorb and return the viewer’s gaze, generating images that are at once unstable, fragmented, and spectral. By incorporating and subtly distorting the surrounding environment and the body of the beholder, these works prompt a reflection on perception and subjectivity that unsettles all dualisms.

Carrie Yamaoka is a co-founder of the queer art collective fierce pussy, formed in the early 1990s in the context of the AIDS epidemic and political mobilizations for LGBTQI+ rights.

Her work is represented by Ulterior Gallery (New York), Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles) and Kiang Malingue (Hong Kong, New York).

The exhibition