What no longer needs to be punished, freedom given

Price: ¥687,500 (tax included)

Production year: 2024

Size: H80.3 x W60.6 x D6.0 (cm)

Material: UV printing on acrylic board x 3, mirrored acrylic plate x 1, UV resin, glitter powder, picture frame (custom order)

Edition: Unique Piece (one of a kind)

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It has a semi-three-dimensional structure with 3 acrylic plates printed with pictures and a total of 4 layers of mirrored acrylic plates inserted into the thick frame.

The line drawing part of the person printed on the top acrylic plate has been glazed and processed to make it thick and exciting.

The parts inside the frame have been painted with acrylic paint and UV resin, so I would be happy if you could take a look at this Matière expression and the phenomena that occur physically.

Thank you so much for visiting this work page. This is Hirose Sachiko.

This exhibition consists of works inspired by words my friend casually uttered in the olden days.

“How can people who can cry watching movies and TV shows do terrible things to others without worry?”

This phrase simply expresses that humans are not perfect, that life and humans are not perfect like creations like movies and dramas, and that sometimes people often do things worse than “villains.”

My friend himself may have said it casually, but it's a word that still sticks in my heart and I can't leave it.

For this exhibition, I took inspiration from these words, thought about one story, and created works related to it.

I would be happy if you could take a look.

STORY

The setting is the near future where civilization has fully developed.

Despite differences in status, people are living comfortably.

In the shadows were people doing “work that people don't want to do.”

They are people who are no longer able to maintain their life activities in an ethically correct way.

They are ostensibly supposed to have passed away, but they received life-prolonging measures in an “ethically incorrect” way and lived doing “work that people don't want to do,” such as “execution officers.”

The executioners were erased from their previous memories, made to appreciate a huge number of creative works produced based on “correct ethics,” such as TV and movies, and thoroughly instilled a “correct sense of ethics,”

Those who opposed it were taught that there was no value in survival, and they worked hard on their daily work “to protect peaceful days.”

One day, the executioner “Luca” picked up a book after finishing his work.

The title “The Other Side of This World” was written in that book, and it clearly described the execution unit to which she belonged and the girls.

“Is what I'm doing really the right thing?”

When she reported this book and her doubts to her superiors, she was kicked out of the unit.

The reason is that if that doubt spreads to others, there is a risk that they will not be able to take control of the unit.

Unable to live in an “ethically correct way,” she lived while regularly receiving “ethically incorrect” methods to prolong her life.

Therefore, if she is evicted from a facility owned by the unit, she will not be able to receive life support measures, and she will only be able to live for 49 more days.

Words overflowed from her mouth when she was evicted from the facility.

“How can people who shed tears watching movies and TV shows do such terrible things?”

Those words were against a superior officer who kicked himself out, and also against myself, who buried people who had made “mistakes.”

She travels in a “peaceful world” with “Lili,” a monkey with whom she shared many missions.

Although it has a 49-day deadline, it was her first, last, and best memory.

Already free, I am free

I'm sorry for the service

There's nothing to punish,

There's nothing I have to do

the perfect world would revolve without me

Let's enjoy a short break

Part of the picture has been glazed and raised.

It has been enhanced with UV resin.

Signed on the back of the work

Pre-print data

Picture printed on the first acrylic sheet

Picture printed on the second acrylic sheet

Picture printed on the 3rd acrylic plate

Hirose Shoko (Shoko Hirose)

Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, majoring in oil painting in 2018.

After working as a designer for a game company, the artist works in the two fields of art and illustration.

Based on the concept of “an approach to painting that can only be done in the present day where the boundary between digital things and things that exist is blurred,” they print digitally created data and create painting works using various other techniques on top of it by printing digitally created data and manipulating it using drawing materials.

He is also active as an illustrator under the name “Hirose,” and has also worked on illustrations for domestic and international games, light novels, and popular works such as “Hatsune Miku.”

careers

2018 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting

Main Exhibitions

2018 66th Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation and Completion Works Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)

2022 Solo Exhibition “Life in a “PARALLEL” WORLD (Hankyu Men's Tokyo)

2022 “Art Fair GINZA TAGBOAT x MITSUKOSHI” (Ginza Mitsukoshi)

2022 WAVE2022 (Arts Chiyoda 3331)

2023 Hatsune Miku x ISETAN (Isetan Shinjuku)

2023 CULTURE ART PARK 2023 (Daikanyama Tsutaya)

2023 Born New Art Vol. 3 (Shibuya Scramble Square)

2023 solo exhibition “[Unreality] from Unreality: A Slumber's End” (Hanshin Umeda Main Store)

2024 ART OF MIKU (Shibuya/Sapporo Parco)

2024 GIRLS COLLECTION (Hanshin Umeda Main Store)

awarded

2014 Tokyo Wonder Wall 2014 Selected

2018 Independent TOKYO2018 Special Jury Award

Possession

KDDI CORPORATION