"Empty calling" Daichi Takahashi August 2013, 8 - August 25, 2013
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: August 2013, 8 (Sunday) - August 25, 2013 (Friday)
*Open from Sunday, August 8th for open campus
Exhibitor: Daichi Takahashi (4rd year, Composition major, Integrated Design field)
I'm interested in how we can open ourselves up to someone close to us, or to someone far away who is no one.
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What viewers must do in this exhibition is to face "what is visible now" and "what is invisible now" at the same time. What's more, what is visible and what is invisible changes rapidly before the viewer's very eyes.
"Platform of Thought" is a work in which the surface of a mirror is painted with a border of lacquer paint. When you try to see the image reflected in the mirror, the border of the surface inevitably gets in the way. Therefore, if you try to concentrate on the reflection, you have to "ignore" the border. Conversely, if you focus on the border pattern of the surface, the thing reflected in the mirror will not come into your eyes, and you will see the material (object) of the mirror and the paint painted on it. The image reflected in the mirror and the object of the mirror of course exist at the same time, but you cannot see them at the same time - that is, you cannot pay equal attention to both. You have to concentrate on either "seeing" the reflected image while ignoring the part that you can be aware of as an object, or "seeing" the mirror as an object while ignoring the object reflected. Similarly, in "Untitled (Image)," you have to switch between the image reflected in the glossy black screen and the material of the screen on which it is reflected.
The Books is another work that requires us to change the way we "see." The books are fixed in the air with their bottoms aligned, as if they were arranged on a transparent bookshelf. In this work, when you are conscious of the invisible bookshelf, the presence of the books is weak. You do not feel gravity. On the other hand, when you are focusing on the books, the invisible bookshelf is "invisible."
These works, which require two different ways of looking at them, inevitably require time to be spent slowly facing them. Although they exist simultaneously, they cannot be viewed all at once. This sense of frustration and mystery envelopes the viewer. In this quiet, tense space, we gradually begin to wonder what it is we are looking at when we look at something. (Okano Emiko)
