Hidenori Kondo's work explores the gap between absence and presence as it is exploited by advertising and public institutions. For his show at Momenta Art, the artist finds this absence in the form of the professional soccer stadium. By recreating a personal-sized patch of stadium in the gallery, Kondo places the viewer into that gap and into an active dialectic with a disembodied crowd, which cheers as long as a soccer ball is kept in play.

Related pieces include an inside-out soccer ball, a "red card" memorializing the penalization of Zidane Zinedine during the 1998 World Cup, and the text of the FIFA rules for soccer, inverted and thereby made open ended. The rules of soccer (and their violation), like the rules of art, exist at the very intersection beween absence and presence, between public event and personal experience.

Hidenori Kondo is a recent MA graduate from New York University/ International Center of Photography. Recent exhibitions include work shown in Art Resources Transfer, John Gibson Gallery, D-Space, Ruby Gallery, 80 Washington Square Galleries and Star 67, Brooklyn, NY. This year, Kondo curated "On Concept ­ 10 Photo-based Artists from New York." In addition to exhibiting and curating, Kondo has had art reviews in Ryukou Tsushin Magazine in Tokyo and has been a selected artist in articles such as "Canon New Cosmos of Photography" in Japan and "Young Photographers United" in Belgium.