Tableware

　Modern housing for workers, which originated in the West, succeeded in forming a standardized architectural style. While privacy was protected as a matter of course, the residents became isolated, and they had no firm roots.

While protecting people's privacy, apartment complexes that dilute relationships with society seem like they are trying to adapt by dropping their feet on their own to the worries that slaves suffered under medieval slavery (the point where their existence does not remain as a trace in society).

The residents living in our island nation don't have enough energy to rebel against the structures of language and architecture that govern our lives, and they don't really raise voices of help. In response to the vaguely approaching end, they try to resist or flee with their own gestures while harboring longing for somewhere far away that is not here.

This was the first time we focused on the existence of an “idiot ship” described by Foucault as a possibility of escaping or connecting to the outside. It is said that before lunatics began to be confined to spaces such as confinement facilities, jails, and hospitals, people who couldn't adapt to society were moved from city to city on ships. It has a part that resonates with our current lives, and I think we can find light in that possibility without categorically denying a kind of madman.

They laughed off sicknesses and fearful beings like lunatics, and created furniture “sink” and “tableware” as a base to protect themselves.

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Production year: 2024

Size: plate: diameter 25.5 x D1 cm, ball: diameter 12 x D4.5 cm, oar: H19 x W3 x D2 cm

Material: tableware, wax, books

Edition: unique (one-of-a-kind)

[About purchase/delivery]

・The customer is responsible for shipping the work.

・Delivery is possible both within Japan and overseas.

・It may take approximately 1 to 2 months for the work to be delivered after the exhibition period ends (late October 2024). Please be aware in advance.

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Period
2024/10/1 (Tue) to 10/26 (Sat)

Venue

Paichu Gallery

Address

Asahi Seimei Roppongi Building, 5-2-4 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
2nd floor

(Please take the stairs at the back left of the elevator to the 2nd floor)

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phone number

03-6434-9367

Opening time
17:00-23:00

Closed

Sun and Mon

Admission is free

Access

4 minutes on foot from Roppongi Station on the Hibiya Line, 7 minutes on foot from Roppongi Station on the Oedo Line

13 minutes on foot from Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda Line, 13 minutes on foot from Roppongi-itchome Station on the Namboku Line,

Artists

小林敬生 / Keisei Kobayashi

海老塚耕一 / Koichi Ebizuka

GROUP

サリーナー・サッタポン / Sareena Sattapon

中村直人 / Naoto Nakamura

成定由香沙 / Yukasa Narisada

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GAS AS INTERFACE CO.,LTD.

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