すぐそこにキャプションがある世界 / A world with a caption
2020
Installation
展示風景/Exhibition Scenery
「展示されているもの」を「作品だ」、「アートだ」と伝えているものは、いったい何か。
展示会場へ行って、なんだかよく分からないモノだらけの中で、
これは作品で、こっちは作品ではないと見分けられるのは、
「タイトル」を示すキャプションが貼ってあるからだと私は思いました。
展示会場へ行って、なんだかよく分からないモノだらけの中で、
これは作品で、こっちは作品ではないと見分けられるのは、
「タイトル」を示すキャプションが貼ってあるからだと私は思いました。
だったら、作品のないところにキャプションが貼ってあったらどうなるだろうか。
野生の作品とでも言えるような面白いもののそばに、
野生のホワイトキューブ（白壁で囲まれた展示空間）とでも言えるような独特の空間に、
あるいは、本当になんでもないようなところに
私はキャプションを貼ってみることにしました。
なにもないところに貼られたキャプションを見たとき、見つけたとき、
何があるのだろうかと疑問に思ってあたりを見回すことでしょう。
なにもないところから、なにかを見つけ出そうとする目の動き、頭の働きから
作品、アートというものが生まれるのではないか、私はそう考えました。
本当は、作品やそれを見て感じられることというのは、
作品というモノがなくとも丁寧にものを見て考えることで得られるのではないでしょうか。
これは、
なにもないように見えるところを
作品が展示されている空間へ変える作品です。
This is a work that asks the question: what is a work of art?
What is it that makes a work of art?
How do you go to an exhibition and see all these things that you don't understand?
How can you tell which one is a work of art and which one is not?
I think it's because there are captions on them.
So I wondered what would happen if there were captions pasted where there were no works.
I wondered what would happen if captions were placed where there were no artworks, near interesting things that could be called wild artworks.
Or in a unique space that could be called a wild white cube (an exhibition space surrounded by white walls)
Or in the middle of nowhere.
When you see a caption in the middle of nowhere when you find it.
You look around, wondering what is there.
It is from the movement of the eyes and the action of the mind that we try to find something out of nothing.
I believe that the work of art is born from the movement of the eyes and the action of the head to find something out of nothing.
The truth is that a work of art and what we feel when we look at it is the same as what we feel when we look at other things, even if there is no work of art.
The truth is that the work of art and what we feel when we look at it can be obtained by looking at the things around us as carefully as if we were looking at a work of art.
This is a work that creates and exhibits a space where artworks exist everywhere.
What is it that makes a work of art?
How do you go to an exhibition and see all these things that you don't understand?
How can you tell which one is a work of art and which one is not?
I think it's because there are captions on them.
So I wondered what would happen if there were captions pasted where there were no works.
I wondered what would happen if captions were placed where there were no artworks, near interesting things that could be called wild artworks.
Or in a unique space that could be called a wild white cube (an exhibition space surrounded by white walls)
Or in the middle of nowhere.
When you see a caption in the middle of nowhere when you find it.
You look around, wondering what is there.
It is from the movement of the eyes and the action of the mind that we try to find something out of nothing.
I believe that the work of art is born from the movement of the eyes and the action of the head to find something out of nothing.
The truth is that a work of art and what we feel when we look at it is the same as what we feel when we look at other things, even if there is no work of art.
The truth is that the work of art and what we feel when we look at it can be obtained by looking at the things around us as carefully as if we were looking at a work of art.
This is a work that creates and exhibits a space where artworks exist everywhere.
(Machine Translated)