"I'm completely independent" Noriko Watanabe April 2009, 4 - April 13, 2009

The exhibition "Properly Autonomous" will be held.
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: December 2009, 4 - January 13, 2009
Exhibitor: Noriko Watanabe (2nd year student majoring in composition)

I've been feeling a bit decadent lately, so I've decided it's time to start taking control of my own affairs.
The meaning of management seems to be to supervise, operate, or deal with or repair. It's quite a difficult task!
…Maybe I should stop (lol)

T+review

　Palm-sized boxes form a horizontal line on the gallery wall. Each box contains a different world. Visitors to the exhibition space can walk sideways like a crab and look inside each box, which seems to be placed at eye level with the artist.
The scenes that unfold within the boxes are complete in themselves and have no consistency. One box depicts a movie theater, another a factory, and they are rendered in different colors and materials, and the captions attached below each one are all different numbers. The viewer enters the artist's world by comparing the "personal" space with their own senses and experiences. And the moment they have finished looking at all the works, what unfolds before them is the landscape outside the gallery, the exact opposite of "personal space," that is, the "general world." At that moment, thrown into a world filled with the everyday, they ask themselves what "autonomy" means to them.
The space, with cubes lined up within a white cube, exudes a nervousness somewhat reminiscent of a hospital, which seems to contradict the lethargy hidden in the title of the exhibition, which could be interpreted as a determination to "be independent." However, in this quiet space, the artist may have been trying to slowly invite others, who have the same sensory organs but different sensitivities and emotions, into the world he created one by one to reaffirm his own senses. (Hiroko Haraguchi)