RAS Life
Year: 2025
Material/Technique: Acrylic, Mixed Media, Plaster
Size: 12.2 × 12.2 × 12.2 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
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USD 1,069
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About the Work
- Year
- 2025
- Material/Technique
- Acrylic, Mixed Media, Plaster
- Size
- 12.2 × 12.2 × 12.2 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Frame
- Not Included
- Work Certificate
- Included
- Distributor of artworks
- Yuki Ioroi
- Ship-from Area
- Shizuoka Prefecture
- Days Until Dispatch
- 4-7 Days
- Category
- Mixed Media
- Style
- Conceptual
Work Details
[RAS Life]
One of the functions of the brain is a function called RAS, which makes humans sensitive to gathering information about things they are interested in.
When you have a positive consciousness with goals and hopes, necessary information relating to curiosity or what you have found value comes in, but when you spend your time vaguely, what you want to avoid or what you don't like gradually becomes clear, and only that information is sifted through and transmitted to the brain.
Inspired by this brain function, words are arranged on this cube-shaped plaster work using acrylic and a cutting sheet. The words “LIFE,” which means life, are arranged alternately at the top, and “SURVIVING,” which means survival, and “THRIVING,” which means prosperity and development, are arranged alternately on all aspects.
Words that are arranged in the same way at first glance always look different depending on how they hit the light and the angle, and it is assumed that words that the brain catches more clearly can change depending on what and how you are aware of on a regular basis.
It is a work that once again asks questions about how to perceive things and how to perceive life, and at the same time symbolizes that the way we look at them can flexibly change depending on consciousness.
*RAS (abbreviation for Reticular Activating System)
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Artist
Artist
Born 1980, Shizuoka, Japan. Graduated from Tokyo Asagaya Art College, School of Image Creation in 2007. Started her career in London in 2011 and has exhibited at numerous art fairs and exhibitions in the UK, Tokyo, and the Netherlands. She mainly produces paintings and semi-three-dimensional works based on ‘words/text’. She returned to Japan in 2023 and is currently based in Shizuoka. It is said that humans think about 50,000 thoughts every day, 90% of which are the same as yesterday. Is the world we see through the endlessly repeated thoughts of the unconscious really the truth or reality? With this question as its theme, the work poses a message to the self-perception and manifest consciousness of those who confront it. 1980 Born in Shizuoka, Japan 2001 Study abroad in L.A for 2 years 2007 Graduated from Tokyo Asagaya Art College, School of Image Creation 2011 Moved to London and started a career as an artist 2013 Back to Japan and held a first solo show in Tokyo 2016 Moved to the Netherlands 2023 Back to Japan, live and work in Shizuoka [Award/Prize] 2019 Long listed for Aesthetica Art Prize, Three-Dimensional Design & Sculpture in UK 2014. The Special Jury Prize from the University of the Arts London Vice President [Solo exhibition] (selected) 2022 “Truth ≠ Fact”, Case Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2016 “AsAMatterOfFact” JAPSEL Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan 2013 “BELIEVING IS SEEING” Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo, Japan [Group exhibition](selected) 2024 “Chapter 11 -Summer Show”, KEN FINE ART, Osaka, Japan 2016 “INSIGHT OUT”, KOMAGOME1-14a, Tokyo, Japan 2016 “FARO de ART”, FARO Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan 2014 “BWHOOM TOKYO”, PARCO Gallery X, Tokyo, Japan 2014 “3331 Chiyoda Art Fes Independent”, Tokyo, Japan 2013 “Open Country”, College Lodge Gallery, London, UK 2013 “Japan Now”, A-side B-side Gallery, London, UK 2012 “Read Between The Lines”, ITV Television centre, London, UK 2012 “ KiraKira”, Gallery Onetwentyeight Gallery, New York, USA 2012 “Caterpillar Dreams”, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK 2012 “CODE Shift-beyond the code-“, The Blank Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2012 “Salon des Refusés”, Hoxton Gallery, London,UK [Art Fair] 2018 “Artrooms”, London, UK 2017 “Moniker International Art Fair”, London,UK 2016 “Art Fair Tokyo”, Tokyo, Japan 2015 “Art Fair Tokyo”,Tokyo, Japan 2015 “KIAF”, Seoul, Korea 2014 “Tokyo Designers week Art Fair”, Tokyo, Japan
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