Moving Still: Video Art Highlights from the Dikeou Collection

Curated by Hayley Richardson

Opening

July 10th 2025

6:00pm to 8:00pm

@The Dikeou Collection

1615 California St. 5th floor

Denver, CO 80202

Gallery talk about collecting video work by
the Director of the Dikeou Collection, Hayley Richardson.

This event is free

Gallery hours:
July 10th to August 1.
Wednesday-Friday, 11am-5pm,

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Statement:

Dikeou Collection is thrilled to present “Moving Still: Video Art Highlights from the Dikeou Collection” for the 2025 edition of Denver Month of Video. Join us for a kick-off reception to celebrate select video artworks and installations from Dikeou Collection’s international roster of artists including Momoyo Torimitsu, Serge Onnen, Dan Asher, and Devon Dikeou. Additional features include zingmagazine’s “curatorial video crossing” compilations volumes 1 & 2, and Zapp Magazine Issue 01, an international artmagazine on video.

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Momoyo Torimitsu "Miyata Jiro"

I was born into the Japanese high economic boom in a suburb of Tokyo—in a place we refer to as a “Bed Town” which provided Japanese people of my generation with a vision of a brilliant future lying ahead. Most of my work has tried to reflect on High Capitalism’s effect on our daily lives.

One of the main focuses of my work is the tension between “reality” as it is perceived via the senses, and that which we can recognize as physically or objectively real. The reality of the senses is often remote from that which actually lies around us, and may in fact lie closer to illusion.

It has become a feature of modern life that peoples’ senses can no longer be relied on to distinguish between what is authentic and what is just a well-crafted fake. Amidst Japan’s complex array of signs, even the truly authentic has become suspect as an imposter. One might even say that daily life consists of a “reality” in which one never encounters anything authentically real.

Dan Asher "Creature"

the ominous glacial calm


the precipice between utter glee and infinite dispair


the chill hoarfrost of familiarity and alienation


an, at once, beckoning and repulsive bleakness


as a paradigm for human, “sub”-human
and above all, humane existence


an inherent otherworldliness,
that defies comprehension


yet feels like a second on third skin

Serge One “Break”

Like everybody, I made drawings before I knew about art, before I new how to write, before I knew how to speak. That is something that should always be kept in mind.

I will limit myself within a certain subject, but that subject is not the theme. By this I mean, when I draw hands, I am not interested in sign-language or palm reading. The hand will have something else to do.

I want to use drawing in more ways than just on paper. There’s nothing wrong with drawings on paper.

By using loops for my animation videos, the repetitional aspect of the piece can replace the narrative aspect of moving images.

I bring drawing, animation, film, video and wallpaper together around a central theme and put drawing in a wider perceptive by initiating all kinds of projects, such as my ongoing book project Drawings on… (aka Volume).

Photography stopped everyday drawing. The computer stopped everyday writing.

By using wallpaper and it’s repetitional aspect I can intensify the experience of a small drawing.

The power of animation is that the unbelievable and impossible is normal. Someone falls from a building and just walks away. Violence in animation doesn’t hurt.

Also, the speed a drawing can have—you get a different meaning when you get to see 15 drawings per second.

I would rather do nothing, if I had the courage.

I make art to get rid of it.

In my opinion drawing is universal in the sense that everybody has made a drawing at one time, while not everybody has made a photograph, painting or film.

Drawing is cheap.

Devon Dikeou “The News Too”

The polarities of “The News”, cable especially . . . And yet with all their differences they look much the same, especially if you take out all the content. That’s what THE NEWS TOO is . . . Nine backgrounds of popular Cable TV News. Flickering, shimmying, “Dancing in the Moonlight”, all the vociferous drama is drained. What is not seen is now the star, undecipherable, ubiquitous, bland, the ultimate wallflowers . . . which one will you dance with.