KITAKYUSYU Biennial 2002-2003 Kitakyusyu Municipal Museum of Art
DVD: 16minutes 108pc chairs
"Inventions"
Everyday passes away loosely and heartlessly. The forgotten photographs of everyday life are silent and assert nothing. They just simply beat rhythms like piano. As for it, they are disinterested and also devoted anyhow.
I combined each two or three images I found in my family’s old everyday photographs. Those photographs are consecutive shots taken by someone. I titled them "Inventions". It is one of popular piano-methods of Bach. The artwork is presented as spectators can recognize the rhythm of “Fugue” appears into the photographs by overlapping them to the music. Japanese people began to obtain their own cameras personally at the high economic growth in the 60s. Whether at home, at work or on a trip, people put moments reflected in their eyes into their cameras. That atmosphere is filled with their affection and modesty, being free from the intention for showing off. These photographs taken by different persons at different locations look like somehow comical, meaningless and strange sense of rhythm is there. I am convinced the earnestness of this generation let people press the shutter of camera and then special individual rhythm was created by chance.
Various 108 chairs beat uneven rhythm in contrast with piano's rhythm. These chairs are being used in people's daily life. Our life looks like chairs. Each is different shape and different size. Although we can own only one chair in our life, we are very free for what kind of chair we like to sit on. If it is possible for us to sit on the chair that suits our life, it is no meaning whether the chair is expensive, cheap or good-looking.