Senzoku Gakuen Junior and Senior High School
Artwork
2019
This work is a spatial installation consisting of two wall-mounted works and a video work, both installed in the entrance space of Senzoku Gakuen Junior and Senior High School. It functions as a "window" connecting the inside and outside of the campus, and the flow and gaze of people, and is an attempt to create a multi-layered landscape within an everyday space. It was completed after approximately one and a half years of research and production.
The project involves collecting images of silver, hemispherical music halls and other landscapes scattered across the campus through fieldwork, incorporating them into a virtual space, and developing them as another landscape in correspondence with the real world.
In terms of spatial composition, "windows," "shadows," and "columns" are treated as the main elements. The pathways of sight that open to the outside, the striped shadows created by the light streaming in from the ceiling, and the presence of existing columns all interact with each other, making the entire space function as a single visual device.
Furthermore, the video work employs a structure in which the viewpoint within the virtual space shifts in a bird's-eye view and intrudes into the real space, resulting in a composition in which painting and space, reality and virtuality, overlap in a nested manner.
Information
Title: 'HOME GROUND (Senzoku Gakuen)'
Venue: Senzoku Gakuen Junior and Senior High School
Location: Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Format: Wall-mounted artworks (2 pieces), video artworks