Kamosumori Art Project

When encountering a place for the first time the image imagined and the actual image overlap.
The visualization of that instant.
A water basin that resembles the rice terraces of Matsunoyama Onsen. How do we perceive an object sandwiched between the actual sky and the sky reflected in the water?
Is it a triangular roof enshrined on the surface of the water? Or a square frame?
The reality facing you is reversed, and this device brings you closer to the image.
A cube that floats in the space between reality and fiction.

Let’s appreciate this piece. Through the blue sky of daytime, to the evening bathed in red, this work changes depending on the time, the sky, and the clouds. Immerse yourself in this piece and the scenery of Kurokura.
Let’s photograph this piece. When you take a photo you can capture an unusual cube that is floating in the scenery. A mysterious world where fact and fiction meet.
Let’s photograph this piece. Stand on the little cube and take a photo with this piece. You too can become a resident of this in-between world.

This piece is from the “Island of Collage” series where I have sketched the flora and culture of my childhood in Miyakojima in Okinawa, and try to reconstruct them as diagrams. I made them by splicing together fragmentary images and taking an overview of the whole. In this way I wanted to reveal a previously hidden story.
“花扇風機” (The Flower Fan) is a depiction of flowers in full bloom being scattered by sea winds and typhoons.
“果物網” (The Fruit Net) takes tropical fruit whose colors usually attract attention, and redraws them as die-cast charms. They are then arranged in geometric patterns so you can really feel the rhythm of their shapes.

Was born in 1994 on Miyakojima in Okinawa.
She graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting in 2017, and in the same year entered the Graduate School of Oil Painting Techniques and Materials in Tokyo University of the Arts, and completed her studies in 2019.
From 2019 to the present she has been in the Doctoral Program at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
Until now, she has recorded her personal dreams and fantasies using a method similar to scientific sketches, and has shared them with others.
In recent years, she has applied the drawing style that she has developed and has been working on several commission works.

うかぶ (Floating)
Staring for a long time at the outline of the island across the sea, the boundary between myself and the world becomes blurred.

溜 (Resevoir)
As we came out of the forest and proceeded along the mountain road, the field of vision suddenly opened up, and we could finally see the body of water.

緑野 (Green Fields)
The plain is a view I have seen since my childhood.
Open spaces soothe the mind, and one can feel the quiet warmth in the small details of the moving life.

翠 (Green)
Mountains are constantly changing their appearance, with both the colors and shapes altering. The moment the mountains are green is captured here through the use of woodblock prints.

“無代の国道13号線” (Untitled Route 13) is an oil paiting from the kara / 空（から）Series.
In this series of abstract works over 90% of the canvas is taken up by the sky (not including clouds) but in the lower part you can make out the definite shape of the mountains below.
From a distance it is a Barnett Newman-esque abstract work, but if you look at it from up close you see that it is a figurative painting.
It is an interactive work that plays with the viewer’s sense of distance.

An artist who splits his time between Toronto and Tokyo, occasional curator, collector, and advocate for the art educator community.
He is motivated by the origins of modern society and the verification of its validity, and creates works about its duality.

Main Exhibitions
Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada（Toronto）
The Japan Foundation, Toronto. Japanese Cultural Center
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche（Toronto）
SVA Gallery（New York）
Wagner University Gallery（New York）
Chongqing Yangtze River Museum of Contemporary Art（China）

Field Trip Project and Field Trip Project Asia, POWER TO THE PEOPLE、Fukushima NO ALICE, Daichi Project
Multi Layered surfaces Representative Curator

Author of こどもの絵 (Children’s Pictures)（Ichisho Shobo, 2005）
2018　Participated in the Yamagata Biennale
General Director of the inaugural Responding International Performance Art Festival and Symposium

Due to rebuilding work for a project, an old artist atelier was to be demolished.
There were a large amount of empty frames of different sizes, styles and ages.
“Scrap and build” has become the norm in interior and building projects these days, but entranced by the mysterious aura of so many empty frames, we couldn’t bear to let them be destroyed so retrieved them in the hope of putting them to use in some way.
Originally a frame’s purpose was to enhance the art, but these frames have been put on the wall in their empty state as decorations themselves.
By painting the frames in a single color they are sealed in time, and given a new inorganic existence. With the use of a mirror, part of the greenery of the outside scenery and of the viewer of the piece is incorporated, and there is also the contrast of the absence of art in the frames themselves.
The viewer is able to insert themselves into the work, or by changing their point of view, appreciate different aspects, so it is a work that allows the viewer to interact with the piece at their leisure.

CUBE?

【How to enjoy this work of art】

The Flower Fan / The Fruit Net

Eri Yagi

Location / Kamosumori suite

Floating / Reservoir / Green Fields / Green（From left to right）

Megumi Endo

Location / Standard Double

Kara / 空（Empty）Series
Untitled Route 13

Daisuke Takeya

Location / Standard Twin

額装 / 夢想 (Framed / Fantasy)

Design Guild Tokyo

Location / Economy Twin A