“Other Love” Keisha Shimizu October 2012, 10 - October 9, 2012
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: October 2012, 10 (Tuesday) - October 9, 2012 (Friday)
Exhibitor: Shimizu Erisa (4th year, Composition major, Integrated Design field)
I will exhibit video works.
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Upon entering the gallery, you can hear the chatter of people. The video screen projected on the wall is divided into about ten sections, with people reflected in each section. I sensed a gentle atmosphere from the video. This is because each screen shows two people - one boy and one girl - and they are all images of couples. Some couples are eating, others watching TV or looking at a computer. These images are basically shot from a perspective that seems to be watching their world from behind. There is a distance between them and us, as if we were looking at an exhibition. This sense of distance is not just a matter of the way it was shot, but may be the feeling we, as third parties, tend to have towards "lovers."
By the way, the artist spoke about this exhibition in these words: "After the happy ending, everything is ordinary, boring, and endearing." What does "happy ending" mean here? When the recognition that two people are friends ends and "a relationship of lovers is established"? But what makes a relationship of "lovers"?
Lovers are strange. The structure of being together because you like each other is no different from a friendship, but before you know it, both you and others become aware that you have become lovers. The dividing line between being lovers is actually very vague, and it is unclear whether it even exists. Therefore, after the "happy ending" (= the establishment of a romantic relationship), it becomes "ordinary and boring." This is because the members of the world around them have not changed, the structure of human relationships has not changed, and the rules of the world have not changed. However, for the lovers who have reached their happy ending without realizing it, each and every day of their lives must feel irresistibly "precious." How many "precious" days have the lovers in the video accumulated since their respective "happy endings"? Of course, we, as third parties, cannot know what their daily lives were like before, or what they are like now. All we can do is imagine their lovely daily lives from their gestures and conversations. (Okano Emiko)
