"Graduation Ceremony" YUKA×kajumin (Yuka Matsuzoe, Kazumi Ishida) March 2013, 3 - March 25, 2013
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: April 2013, 3 (Monday) - April 25, 2013 (Friday)
9:00-18:30 (until 17:00 on the last day)
Exhibitor: YUKA×kajumin
Yuka Matsuzoe (4th year, Visual Design major)
Kazumi Ishida (4th year student, Composition major, Integrated Design field)
Those who graduate and those who don't,
Let's all celebrate the graduation ceremony!Animation & Installation
T+review
The exhibition began at the T+ Gallery on March 24th, the same day as the 3 graduation ceremony at the University of Tsukuba. The final exhibition of the year was "Graduation Ceremony" by two graduates.
The gallery was filled with the artists' worldview and playfulness. Motifs that evoke nostalgia in the viewer are scattered throughout. For example, the desks lined up along the gallery walls are familiar desks with wooden tops and metal legs. From elementary school to university, we have sat at these desks in classrooms almost every day. Many people in elementary school will have used the blue plastic drawers in these desks. An animation playing in the center of the gallery shows female students in sailor suits having fun at their graduation ceremony. These are things that not only the artists but all of us have said goodbye to at the many "graduation ceremonies" we have experienced at turning points in our lives.
In this way, the world of the artists is expressed, as if all the previous "graduation ceremonies" had come together at once, yet somehow there is a sense of unity.
But are the artists simply trying to express their own world? It seems as though they are trying to celebrate "graduation" with the audience and make it memorable. In addition to using familiar objects in the exhibits, graduates can take home brooches at the "reception" at the entrance, and current students can participate in the exhibition by scattering confetti.
On the wall right next to the reception desk were the following words from the creators:"And today is the day we depart from that school.
My friends who supported me in difficult times,
Friends who shared the fun.
Parting ways with them and embarking on a new path
You are leaving.”For many people, the university graduation ceremony will be their final "day of departure from school." The schools they have grown up in - elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university. The exhibition gave the impression of the artists, who are at the turning point of graduating from university, looking back on all of those experiences and cherishing them fondly. (Okano Emiko)
