2017/10/6 – 2017/10/20
ge-shuku (Ishikawa)
Artist:
Ryusei MIYAZAKI
Kosuke YAMAGISHI
Installation view▼
statement
「境界線と夜」
文章 宮崎竜成
ある日二人で内灘の海へ行った。ちょうど展示が決まって1ヶ月後くらいだったと思う。そこで見た景色は空も海も自分の立っている場所さえも曖昧になっていた。
私と山岸の関係性は大学の同期や友達という言葉だけでは表せないように思う。もちろん、大学の同期であることは事実としてあるし、友達でないと言ったら嘘になる。しかし二人の間では、言葉尻だけでは表せないモヤモヤとした霧のような揺らぎがある。この関係性というのは決まって夜になって初めてあらわれる。
二人は日中にほとんど会話をしない。会うことさえ珍しい位だろう。しかし、夜になると示し合わせたようにアトリエで対峙し、示し合わせたようなタイミングで、共にコンビニへ行く。特に目的や明確な理由は無い。強いていうならば、日常への、あるいは生きるということへの関わりを共有したいのだと思う。
夜は、物事や私たち自身の境界線を解いてくれるような気がする。
夜は、昼とは明らかに違った景色を見せてくれる。そんな中にいると、普段、無意識的に作られた物事や私たちのイメージは容易に意味を失い、曖昧になる。そうなって初めて、物事とのやりとりが始まるのだと、二人は感じている。私と山岸の関係性も、夜の力を借りて、“友達”や“同期”と言った境界線から離れた場所で成立し、お互い自ら、曖昧な所へと向かって行く。私はこれを“生きているということの関わり”の共有だと思う。
私と山岸の制作も生きているということの関わりに他ならない。
風景やモチーフに対し、意味性から離れたところで、絵画や映像というフレームを通して身体的に関わろうとする。その成果物が展示を通して関わり合い、そこにあなたも関わってゆくのである。
“Borderline and Midnight”
Text by Miyazaki Ryusei
One day, We went to the sea in Uchinada. I think it was about a month after the exhibition was decided. The sky, the sea, and even the place where I was standing became vague in the scenery we saw there.
I don’t think the relationship between Yamagishi and I can be described in terms of just being college classmates or friends. Of course, it is true that we are university classmates, and it would be a lie to say that we are not friends. However, between the two of us, there is a foggy shimmer that cannot be expressed by words alone. I’m not sure what to make of this.
The two of them hardly talk to each other during the day. It is rare for them to even meet. However, at night, they face each other in their atelier, and go to the convenience store together at the same time. There is no particular purpose or clear reason. If I had to put it another way, I would say that they want to share their relationship to everyday life, or to life itself.
The midnight seems to dissolve the boundaries between things and ourselves.
The midnight gives us a distinctly different view from the day. When we are in such a situation, things and our images, which are usually created unconsciously, easily lose their meaning and become ambiguous. We both feel that it is only when this happens that we can start interacting with things. With the help of the night, the relationship between Yamagishi and I is also established at a place far away from the boundaries of “friends” and “peers,” and we are both heading towards a place of ambiguity. I think of this as the sharing of the “relationship of being alive”.
The work of Yamagishi and I is nothing other than the relationship of being alive.
We try to physically engage with landscapes and motifs through the frame of painting and video, away from their meaning. In this exhibition, you will be able to see the results of this process, and you will be involved in the process.