”site—representation” Fukushima Art Annual 2025
mixed-media installation
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
This installation work was created for the Fukushima Art Annual 2025 exhibition titled “site—representation.” Focusing on the interaction between artificial objects and nature that occurs between private and public spaces in urban environments, the work takes motifs such as "vacant Lands," "Passage," and "walls" to reconstruct latent, intermediate zones within the city as a unique form of "garden"—an installation. The exhibition space is composed of four main parts: "Vacant Land (Shelter) / Plastic Relics," "Passage (Tracing Boundary)," "Palimpsest (Collaged Wall)," and"Words of Situation."
このインスタレーション作品は、福島県美術館において開催された『福島アートアニュアル2025「site—representation」』出展に際し制作された。都市環境の中のプライベートスペースとパブリックスペースとのあいだで生じる人工物(モノ)と自然との干渉を焦点としながら、「空き地」、「歩道」、「壁」などを主なモチーフとし、都市空間の中に潜在する中間的な領域を独自に「庭」=インスタレーションとして再構成する。会場構成は大きく4つのパート、「Vacant Land(Shelter) / Plastic Relics」、「Passage (Tracing Boundary)」、「Palimpsest (Collaged Wall)」、「Words of Situation」に分かれる。
Passage ( Tracing Boundary )
2025
mixed-media Installation
My work takes as its motifs residual objects abandoned in urban boundaries—or threshold-like spaces—such as streets, the areas between private residences and public roads, and vacant lots, as well as discarded everyday objects, weathered architectural walls, and fragments of urban infrastructure. I focus on their ambiguous forms, whose original purposes and functions cannot be readily identified, and on forms that evoke archaeological artefacts.
In this work, I create sculptures by replicating these motifs or abstracting their forms. Within the exhibition space, I bring together forms with varying degrees of abstraction, ranging from near-replicas to those abstracted to the point that their original motifs are almost impossible to identify.
By juxtaposing these forms, the installation produces multiple stages of recognition: although they all derive from objects found within the same urban environment, some are perceived as concrete objects, others retain faint traces of their former purposes and functions, while still others are perceived as pure forms. In this way, the work visualises the gaps and disjunctions that arise between the forms before us and the meanings they evoke. At the same time, works that directly replicate urban residues create a connection between the exhibition space and the actual city and its pavements beyond the walls of the museum.