HAYY: A Self-Taught Musical (nüans)

   The Beloved Companion

   HAYY: A Self-Taught Musical

   Path to Recreation

   The HAYY Residency

   The Story of HAYY

   Oar or Ore?

   The Self-Taught Musical

   Nüans. Artist collective

Hidden Desire

Floating Birdhouses (Ukifune)

Echo

Hetero Architecture

On the Way

Untiteled (Conveyor)

Conveyor belt

Entrance

Transit für sechs Körperteilen

Bags

 

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Bags

1999, 50 × 30× H. 40 cm (Bag 01, Bag 02, Bag 03, Bag 04, Bag 05, Bag 06, 1999)

Resin, video, photo

Transport, Pittsburgh ー Nagoya

Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA ー Zone Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Exhibition's photos in Pittsburgh, underground in Nagoya

 

Reflecting on my approach, it seems important to note that I began making art in Japan in 1995. As part of my studies I participated in a foreign exchange programme in Pittsburgh, U.S.A. I brought the works "Bags" to different places where the paths of people from various countries intersect. At public transportation, airport, bus, teeming with passengers, each with their own subjective experience of time, language and nationality, seems to question the space and passenger’s identity. Since then, I have been working on the issues of location and dislocation.

 

 

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