"Shiny" Yamakoshi Azusa November 2013, 11 - November 18, 2013
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: April 2013, 11 (Monday) - April 18, 2013 (Friday)
Exhibitor: Azusa Yamakoshi (3rd year, Composition major, Integrated Design field)
How can we relate to a vague phenomenon?
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When you hear this title and see the gallery, many people will probably think, "That's right." Inside the gallery, the light bulbs hanging from the ceiling flicker randomly, literally "sparkling." There are silver aluminum sheets and small paintings on the walls, and sand is laid out in round shapes on the floor. When the light bulbs flicker, they are illuminated and "sparkle." The title of the exhibition seems to directly explain the phenomenon in the gallery. However, gradually, you will feel that this title, which seems like a direct description, is actually quite ambiguous.
The word "pikapika" has no subject. We reflexively feel that it is a third-person phenomenon that is occurring independently of us - like "cold," "bright," or "buzzing" - but is "pikapika" really something that has nothing to do with us? If we look closely, we realize that it is not only the light bulb that is shining, but also the reflections of the aluminum sheet and the glass that shine as the light bulb blinks, and that even we ourselves are illuminated by these changing lights. It is not just things other than ourselves that are "pikapika" - we are also "pikapika."
The ambiguity of being caught up in an event that you thought was happening without your involvement. This ambiguity seems to be related to "memory," one of the themes the artist has taken up thus far. When recalling a "memory," we ask ourselves questions such as: Who did what? What changed? What was it like? In the process, we unconsciously establish a relationship between ourselves and the event, fact and imagination become intertwined, and the subject changes in the memory, or the memory remains with an unclear subject. Isn't this ambiguity similar to the ambiguity that arises when describing the "shiny" things in this exhibition? The events around us are not happening independently of us. At the point when we experience or remember them, we are already caught up in the event - in other words, we are measuring the relationship between the event and ourselves - and it is "shiny" in our memories. (Okano Emiko)
