Over the past ten-odd years, it has become a natural habit of sorts that we hold smartphones in our hands. Such devices have become objects that are so close to our bodies that they are now almost parts of it. Never before have we been moved as strongly as by the flood of information that spills over from their small screens, and that has introduced entirely new forms of meeting, passing and parting with others. This work was inspired by the question of what a monument would have to be like to function as a symbol of our age. While the sculpture of large hands itself is reminiscent of enlightening socialist monuments, the screens these hands hold up are facing each other to make it look as if the faces shown on them were kissing. However one may also see them as two separate images of people that just happened to have their eyes closed. The video footage was recorded during the open studio in Brooklyn, NY aiming to include diverse people from different races, genders, and ages. The fact that the hand sculpture is easy to copy and scale, as that part was created by outputting data using a 3-D printer, gives the sculpture a sort of lightness that is yet different from that of enlightening monuments, and thereby adds a notion of uncertainty to the things this work symbolizes.
Over the past ten-odd years, it has become a natural habit of sorts that we hold smartphones in our hands. Such devices have become objects that are so close to our bodies that they are now almost parts of it. Never before have we been moved as strongly as by the flood of information that spills over from their small screens, and that has introduced entirely new forms of meeting, passing and parting with others. This work was inspired by the question of what a monument would have to be like to function as a symbol of our age. While the sculpture of large hands itself is reminiscent of enlightening socialist monuments, the screens these hands hold up are facing each other to make it look as if the faces shown on them were kissing. However one may also see them as two separate images of people that just happened to have their eyes closed. The video footage was recorded during the open studio in Brooklyn, NY aiming to include diverse people from different races, genders, and ages. The fact that the hand sculpture is easy to copy and scale, as that part was created by outputting data using a 3-D printer, gives the sculpture a sort of lightness that is yet different from that of enlightening monuments, and thereby adds a notion of uncertainty to the things this work symbolizes.
展覧会Exhibitions
2020 UN-DEAD-LINK - Reconnectiong with Internet Art (Solo show) (Tokyo Photographic Museum, Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan)
2020 Slice of the universe (MASAHIRO MAKI GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan)
2019 あいちトリエンナーレ (愛知県美術館, 愛知, 日本)
2020 UN-DEAD-LINK - Reconnectiong with Internet Art (Solo show) (Tokyo Photographic Museum, Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan)
2020 Slice of the universe (MASAHIRO MAKI GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan)
2019 Aichi Triennale (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan)
2020 Slice of the universe (MASAHIRO MAKI GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan)
2019 あいちトリエンナーレ (愛知県美術館, 愛知, 日本)
2020 UN-DEAD-LINK - Reconnectiong with Internet Art (Solo show) (Tokyo Photographic Museum, Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan)
2020 Slice of the universe (MASAHIRO MAKI GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan)
2019 Aichi Triennale (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan)