"Inter-surface" Daichi Takahashi October 2012, 10 - November 29, 2012

The exhibition "Inter-surface" will be held.
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: April 2012, 10 (Monday) - April 29, 2012 (Friday)
Exhibitor: Daichi Takahashi (3rd year, Composition major, Integrated Design field)

I am interested in the reality that is exposed and confronting us everywhere (but which we often overlook), and the reality that we cannot access without supplementing it with our imagination.

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-Turning a blind eye to the reality that has been revealed.
　　The struggle to understand hidden realities. - (From the exhibitor's message)

Mirrors, fluorescent lights, cords, maps. I had seen all of these things many times before, but for some reason I felt uneasy. I remember clearly feeling like I had stepped into a dangerous place.
The work on display at the front of the gallery entrance was "reflection/emission." Many people may have been reminded of Dan Flavin when they saw the fluorescent light attached to the mirror. However, the "light" in both works does not have the same meaning. The fluorescent light of the exhibitor is merely a tool used in everyday life. When you stand in front of the work, you can't help but see your own reflection in the mirror, and you instinctively turn away.
To the left of that is a mirror painted with stripes of rose red acrylic paint, titled "blind." The world reflected appears and disappears. It is impossible to capture everything. The words at the beginning of the work - revealed reality, hidden reality - come to mind.
On the right side, there are many light bulbs embedded in the campus and cords stretching to the ceiling. It gives the impression of a living organism born from the campus, living its life to the fullest, and then ascending to heaven. We live, and then we die. This is a fact that never changes, but it is also a reality that we turn a blind eye to.

On the left are colored mountains and a map of Fukushima.
What we need to know and want to know
Things we must not forget, things we want to forget
The use of light in everyday life and the shivers in a dark room
What I wanted to do, what I couldn't do
The fact that so many lives have been lost, and the fact that we are alive now

People believe only what they want to believe and see only what they want to see. They live in their own reality, each one carefully chosen and discarded.
False reality and real reality.
It's okay to suffer. What we need is not a fake one.
When I left the gallery, I found myself faced with a somewhat heavier, yet much more vivid, everyday life. (Misato Kikuchi)