SOLO EXHIBITION
Unforgettable Landscape (Pigeon loft) 
oil on canvas, acrylic on paper
2012
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Installation at Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, 2012
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2012年から続けているペインティングプロジェクト。インタビューを行いそこで話された内容を録音し、そのエピソードをもとに絵画を制作する。
「あなたの忘れられない風景を教えてください」
インタビューで友人Tは、彼の亡くなった祖父の鳩小屋の話をしてくれた。インタビューを何度も再生し描かれた十数点の絵画は、友人Tの記憶の風景を想像したイメージと、インターネットを中心に集めた古今東西の鳩小屋のイメージ、さらに制作者自身の記憶の風景が織り交ざって出来上がるイメージとなった。これらの風景は実在しないが、異なる人々の記憶から引用された、集団的なノスタルジアを喚起する風景だと言える。
記憶の断片をランダムにコラージュするようなプロジェクトである。

​This is a painting project I have been working on since 2012. The paintings are drawn based on the stories of the people I interviewed and recorded. 
My friend T's unforgettable landscape was his grandfather's pigeon loft. I recorded his story and played it again and again while I listened and drew. The final paintings depicted a mixture of images from found images of pigeon lofts of all ages and countries and my friendT's landscape in his memory. At the same time, it is also made up of all-sorts of the pieces of my memory as I am the painter of this project.The landscape in the paintings has never existed anywhere in the world, however this can be a landscape which has been formed from the people's memories. These landscapes evoke a collective nostalgia which doesn't belong to any one particular individual's memory. This is a project like a random collage of the pieces of memories.

pigeon loft, oil on canvas, 2012

pigeon loft, oil on canvas, 2012

pigeon loft (Taiwan), oil on canvas, 2012

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​"When I woke up from the nap, my grandpa stood up by my bed and tapped me to wake me up. And then he said " shall we go?" There was his pigeon loft for pigeon racing. There were forty to fifty of them saying coo, coo, coo -  my silly grandpa. "
(extracted from the interview)

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