“Who Gives a Thought”
Installation work using a teahouse in Minami-ku, Kyoto as exhibition space
The projector is used to develop a viewing method that involves the physicality of the projector. The viewer holds a small screen in his or her hand and gropes through the exhibition space to view the photographs. By touching the “things that are invisible but certainly exist” in that location, the viewer experiences the invisible existence, the framing of subjective perception, and the difficulty of sharing with others.
Twenty projectors were placed on the walls and stairways of the exhibition space, facing hollow rather than fixed screens. The viewer faces these projectors and holds up a hand-held screen to obtain an image. The dark space functions as a camera, and the act of obtaining an image is similar to the process of focusing light from the outside world onto a focusing screen. Through this act, the viewer feels as if he or she is inside the camera.
It is an illusion that we are equally and uniformly aware of the world that exists before us. Everyone focuses on what they want to see and cuts out what they want to see. We quickly forget what exists outside of the scene we have cut out. And again, you have the illusion that you can easily share the world you have cut out with others. Only by carefully and delicately interacting with others can we grasp the contours of why you cut out the scene.
The world I see is limited and arbitrarily framed. It is difficult to take in all the information in front of us equally.
Under the banner of diversity, we create new concepts, acquire knowledge, and try to update our values in line with the times, but “I only grasp a small portion of the information in front of me.” If we don’t go through the introspective process of thinking, “I can only do so much,” then even if we increase the amount of information we receive, we will only end up missing more and more information. Sometimes they are dismissed as “inefficient and difficult to understand.”
Everyone has something within them that is illogical and difficult to understand, something that cannot be easily or immediately put into words.Who will accept them now?
Through the physical act of appreciating the entirety of the image projected from the projector, I present to the viewer what exists outside of the cut out world, even if it is not perceived.
Who Gives a Thought / KG+2024 No.097
Open: 4.29–5.12 10:00–17:00
Closed: Wed.
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