Shota Yamauchi: Medium and Dimension: Apparition
Medium and Dimension: Apparition is an exhibition on the theme of 鈥楢pparition鈥�. This term for the appearance of ghosts, gods, etc. comes from a speculation in a note by Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). It was used in Duchamp鈥檚 masterpiece, The Bride Naked by Her Bachelors (also known as The Big Glass) (1915-1923), to describe the 鈥榓ppearance鈥� of an object in a higher dimensional world, beyond the real three dimensions, in front of the three-dimensional world. Appearance is the essence of the artist鈥檚 work, which attempts to capture higher-dimensional existence through machines and eroticism, and is also an extremely important perspective in the act of creation in contemporary art. This exhibition reconsiders the meaning of the word 鈥榓ppearance鈥� from a contemporary perspective through the works of Shota Yamauchi, and explores the possibilities of expressing two, three and even higher dimensions.
In this exhibition, two works will encounter each other. One is Mai Hime (2021), which is born on a virtual space with computer graphics against the backdrop of Yamauchi鈥檚 personal experience of love, shedding her skin like a garment. The other is an installation in collaboration with Maki Weda, reconstructing a play about smell, Sour Juice like Sweat and Oil Cheese (2023), which takes place in the dreams of a figure sleeping in an aquarium. Yamauchi has crossed digital technology with physical expression, launching the sense of touch in the former and the sense of smell in the latter, linking them to emotion and memory. By interlocking the mechanisms of these two works, each autonomous from the other, visitors will experience a resonance or a newly created manifestation in Yamauchi鈥檚 world of work.
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Medium and Dimension: Apparition is an exhibition on the theme of 鈥楢pparition鈥�. This term for the appearance of ghosts, gods, etc. comes from a speculation in a note by Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). It was used in Duchamp鈥檚 masterpiece, The Bride Naked by Her Bachelors (also known as The Big Glass) (1915-1923), to describe the 鈥榓ppearance鈥� of an object in a higher dimensional world, beyond the real three dimensions, in front of the three-dimensional world. Appearance is the essence of the artist鈥檚 work, which attempts to capture higher-dimensional existence through machines and eroticism, and is also an extremely important perspective in the act of creation in contemporary art. This exhibition reconsiders the meaning of the word 鈥榓ppearance鈥� from a contemporary perspective through the works of Shota Yamauchi, and explores the possibilities of expressing two, three and even higher dimensions.
In this exhibition, two works will encounter each other. One is Mai Hime (2021), which is born on a virtual space with computer graphics against the backdrop of Yamauchi鈥檚 personal experience of love, shedding her skin like a garment. The other is an installation in collaboration with Maki Weda, reconstructing a play about smell, Sour Juice like Sweat and Oil Cheese (2023), which takes place in the dreams of a figure sleeping in an aquarium. Yamauchi has crossed digital technology with physical expression, launching the sense of touch in the former and the sense of smell in the latter, linking them to emotion and memory. By interlocking the mechanisms of these two works, each autonomous from the other, visitors will experience a resonance or a newly created manifestation in Yamauchi鈥檚 world of work.
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