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"Trace Trip,Time Capsule H.K. "
This piece follows the traces of memories and notes of H.K., a hairstylist living in Germany. After interviewing her I traveled to several places mainly in western Japan between spring and autumn 2014, using her photo album as reference.
The passage of time causes countless changes. The sleeper car, mentioned several times in the interview, was abolished. The amusement park from the photo album lies in ruins and the places I visited according to her memories weren’t the places from the photo album. My imagination saved the situation when I no longer could follow a trace. I then tried to find a substitute.
I've also analyzed the pictures and notes by her and her parents down to the last detail and I've tried to imagine those scenes from the past. For example, there is a picture of her which her mother took lopsidedly. Did her mother take it like this lopsided on purpose? Or was it “an accident”? I've started a restoration with research and fantasy which can’t possibly be completed. And I’ve called the exhibition “Reparatur”, a German word, because the model of the exhibition is living in Germany.Her memories and notes were reconstructed with facts from my research and my imagination, to create new stories and memories. The new pieces will create more new stories with the cooperation of the viewers’ memories and experience.
この作品は愛知県生まれ、ドイツ在住の美容師H.K.さんの記憶と記録をトレースする作品である。2014年の初夏から秋にかけての数ヶ月、彼女へのインタビューとアルバム写真を手がかりに西日本を中心に様々な場所に旅に出かけた。
過去から現在の時間の流れは様々な変化を引き起こす。インタビューで何度か話に上がった寝台列車は廃線し、アルバム写真に写るテーマパークは廃墟となり、彼女の記憶を元に訪れた場所はアルバム写真とは別の場所だった。僕は辿ることが出来ない状況を想像力で補いながら、代わりの何かを探しだす。
また、彼女と両親の記録であるアルバム写真を丁寧に読み解き、過去のシチュエーションを想像する。例えば、お母さんが撮影した『斜めに写った彼女の写真』は「斜めに撮影した」のかそれとも「斜めに撮影してしまった」のだろうか。そのようにして、僕はリサーチと想像を巡らしながら今回の展覧会のタイトルをモデルとなった彼女の現住所である、ドイツの言葉で「Reparatur（修復）」に決め、決してたどり着けない修復を試みる。
リサーチから得られた事象と僕の想像力で、彼女の記憶と記録を再構築し、新たな記憶の物語を創造する。生まれた作品は、今度は鑑賞者の記憶や経験をきっかけとして別の新たな物語へと繋がっていく。
Solo Exhibition "Reparatur-Trace Trip,Time Capsule" YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY 2015 / photo by KATO Ken
Trace Trip, Time Capsule (H.K.) #04 2015
video, LCD screen, photograph, photocopied photos, mirror, seeds, stones, others
photo by KATO Ken
Trace Trip, Time Capsule (H.K.) #05 / Trace Trip (H.K.) #05-01 2015
painting, photographs, photocopied photos, stones, camera and ceramic figurine, board / photograph
photo by KATO Ken
Trace Trip (H.K.) #05 2015
41x 48cm, photograph
Trace Trip, Time Capsule (H.K.) #01 2015
video, LCD screen, photograph, scissors
photo by KATO Ken
Trace Trip, Time Capsule (H.K.) #02/ #03 2015
Installation
photo by KATO Ken
Trace Trip (H.K.) #02 2015
80x 59cm, photograph
Trace Trip (H.K.) #03 2015
29x 38cm, photograph
Copied from the photograph of H.K.'s album
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