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WORKS 2018

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 《  浄闇/Purified darkness

 

 

Video Installation

 

素材:映像、サウンド、直径3mの円形鏡、直径3mの投影スクリーン、暗幕、プロジェクター、スピーカー

 

Material :video, sound, 3 m diameter circular mirror, 3 m diameter projection screen, blackout, projector, speaker

2018

 

exhibited in spiral garden , Omotesando , Tokyo


​本作品では、様々な国の様々な年代の人々に火打ち石を渡し、火を起こしてもらう。

 

火打石という原始的な発火方法は、日本では実用性以外に「厄除け」、「清め」、「縁起担ぎ」などの意味があり、現在でも用いている人々がいる。


一つの原始的な行為が、時間や距離を超えて多様な意味を与えられていった。
そこに現れる違いの面白さや類似点から、民族や年齢、時間、距離を超えて、つながっているものに思いを馳せる。 


私は昨年、祭のリサーチで訪れていた、逗子の祭礼の中で初めてそれを見た。
そこでは、神輿の中の御霊を神殿に戻す際の儀式の工程の一つとして行われていた。
その行為だけがとても原始的に感じられ、強烈に記憶に残り、夜に自身で再現を試みたことからこの作品が生まれた。 


日本とルーマニア、そして他の国々の祭の研究をする中で、地域ごとの信仰・祈り・風習の形の多様さに驚いた。そしてまた興味深いのが、外部の者には不思議なものと感じられるそれらは、現地の人にとっては昔からそこにある「当たり前のもの」なのだ。
そのギャップは壁などではなく、世界に無限に散らばっている面白みなのである。

In this work, I give firestones to people of various ages of various countries and have them fire up.

 

In primitive ignition method called flint stone, in addition to practicality in Japan there are meanings such as " Talisman

", " Purification", " lucky charm". And there are still people using it.

One primitive act was given various meanings beyond time and distance.

From the interest and similarities of the differences that emerge there, I think of things that are connected beyond ethnicity, age, time and distance.

I saw it the first time in Zushi's festival that I was visiting at the festival's research last year. There, it was done as one of the rituals when returning the Holy Spirit inside a Mikoshi to the temple.

I felt the acts very primitive and remembered intensely. I tried to reproduce it, and this work was born.

 

While studying Japan and Romania, and other countries' festivals, I was surprised by the diversity of the forms of religious beliefs, prayers and customs of each region. And interestingly, outside people feel strange about those. However, it is a "commonplace" for local people who have been there for a long time. The gap is not a wall, but the fun that is scattered in the world in countless numbers.

 

Most interestingly, most people get the flintstone for the first time. Then, even if I do not ask, each one devises and attempts to make a fire.

It created a way that former ancestors strike stones and cause a fire. And it went away by a new civilization.

 

But with the prepared flint stones, it will be born again in front of me. I would like to express a special feeling of euphoria that I feel when shooting, as I have witnessed the evolution of mankind.

 

 

One scene of video

Inside of installation

Inside of installation

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Outside of installation

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