2014 / Video Installation (CCD-camera, video projector, motor, mixed media) / various size
The newest work in the Realistic Virtuality series in which models are shot with a CCD camera and juxtaposed with their enlarged images. For the Japan that dreamed of a “wealthy society” after the war, movies served as a textbook from which to learn about the America that was its role model. Taking the MGM cartoon “Tom and Jerry”, which middle-aged Japanese saw over and over again on TV when they were children, as a motif, we want to visually critique this viewpoint (delusion) and the “present” that this dream has actually realized through the manipulation of camera and setting perspective techniques. (I.R.)
Born in Sapporo in 1963. Completed a degree at the Graduate School of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Creates films and video installations on the theme of the materiality of moving images. Main works include the Plate series and the ‘Realistic Virtuality’ series of installations. Recent exhibitions include “Re: Quest -Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s” (Museum of Art, Seoul National University), “Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2012” (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography), and “Hyper Archipelago -Light of Silence” (Aomori Museum of Art)
Tokyo Park Tower
