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Takuo Miyanaga direction
Hideaki Hamada × Hii Takizawa × Yukio Shiba Exhibition called “Theatre”
Yokohama Creative City Center 1F
2.11 Tue – 2.16 Sun
On the first floor of the Yokohama Creative City Center, a work called ``An Exhibition Called Theater'' by Hideaki Hamada, Hii Takizawa, and Yukio Shiba was on display.
The three artists are Hideaki Hamada (photo), Hii Takizawa (clothing), and Yukio Shiba (words), and although the exhibition uses the media in which they specialize, it is not a collaboration between the three of them. I think the easiest way to explain it is that each booth uses its own expertise to present its work based on the overall theme.
One thing that struck me when the director, Mr. Miyanaga, explained to me was, ``Even in everyday life, there is always a theatrical moment somewhere.I want you to feel that moment through this exhibition.''
He says that this exhibition is not just a simple exhibition, but a device that allows people to feel the theatrical moments that occur in everyday life.
I would like to report on the "devices" of the following three people.
The space on the far left is an exhibition by photographer Hideaki Hamada.
Photos are displayed throughout the space, with additional photos taken by visitors during the exhibition. To take additional photos, visitors must rent an instant camera placed in the center, but if you look closely, you'll see an instruction written on it that says, ``Please take a photo for tomorrow.'' Of course, photographs capture the present, and the moment they are taken, they become the past, but for this exhibition, we had to photograph the future. When participants go outside with their cameras and (although they don't have to) press the shutter, they imagine the future of the scene, and even after they have taken the picture, they will think about various things about their daily lives from the present to that future. Dew.
In addition, the sight of a ``camera photographing the future'' has been established as a device that evokes an infinite number of stories, including the photographs on display, even if you are not a participant. I felt a strange sensation as if I had landed on the ground.
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The central space is an exhibition by Yukio Shiba.
He is a playwright and director, and the exhibition mainly used "words."
Select the number you like from the box and select a letter from inside. Furthermore, each letter has a designated place to open it depending on the number, so viewers are asked to read the letter at the location marked on the map. It has been specified.
You can also write a reply to the letter you read and mail it, but the reply will be delivered to someone you don't know, and (other mailers) will send a reply to the letter of your choice from someone you don't know. The system is such that a reply will be sent to you by mail.
I myself actually received the letter and opened it at the designated location.
If you look at the photo, you can understand the contents, but it seems that the person writing this letter is about to go to the sea to cry.
I wrote a reply and mailed it, mentioning the recommended ``Aisukurin.''
Immediately after the session, I received a reply envelope written by someone else enclosed in the envelope I had written.
I didn't write the text intentionally, but it seems like he was worried about me, who was crying while eating ice cream by the sea in this cold winter.
I don't know who the letter came from, but by reading the letter alone in a designated place, I can feel that the place I am in, and the scenery and people around me, are all related to me, and I feel like I am It was a work that drew me in to the feeling that the ordinary scenes of everyday life were part of a story that was connected in my head even after the exhibition was over. .
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The last work is by Hii Takizawa on the far right of the booth.
Hii Takizawa specializes in fashion, and in this exhibition he attempted to create works that use clothing to create stories in everyday life.
The clothes on display are not made but borrowed, but when you pick them up, you will see a message with a profile of the person who probably owned it and a memorable anecdote from that person's life. Just by reading the document, the story of the owner's life that can be imagined from the clothes is very interesting.
It is also possible to borrow the clothes and go out on the town wearing them, and the system allows the person who borrows the clothes to take a photo of themselves wearing the clothes and return them to the booth along with the clothes.
Clothing evokes an image of its owner even without words, such as its design or the degree of pain, and the act of borrowing it and wearing it by someone completely unrelated is like stepping into a person's story. Maybe you can feel it.
In addition, the sight of more and more photos of people wearing the clothes reminds us not only of the owner of the clothes, but also of the stories of the wearers, and shows us how clothes play an important role in leading us to the story, just like costumes in a play. It seemed like an exhibit that would make you realize how much you are responsible for it.
It is unknown whether the owner of this garment actually exists, but that is not important here.
Just by looking at the clothes and the text, I could feel the various stories within them, and even though I was at the venue, I felt like I was able to see scenery far away.
In this way, each artist in this exhibition made use of his or her own expertise and, while using different media, attempted to propose a device that invites us to the theatrical moments (stories) that exist in everyday life.
Although there was no special stage equipment installed at the venue, it was very pleasant to feel that our consciousness as we appreciate the exhibition through words and imagination was expanding to a wider stage, and what I felt most about it was the exhibition. Even after watching it, my daily life, which I had been looking at without paying attention to it, seemed a little different.
I think it was an exhibition that gave me a very refreshing and warm feeling as I felt the story of the unknown future, the past, myself and someone I don't know, and stories that I don't usually think about.