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Shota Yamauchi "Love & Humor"
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Shota Yamauchi
Shota Yamauchi, born in 1992 and graduated from the Department of Media Imaging, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2016, began his career as an artist by creating videos combining 3DCG and chroma key composition, and in recent years has been working on creating work incorporating the latest technologies such as VR with physical performance. The installation work "Maihime" presented at " Terrada Art Award 2021" last year is a metaphor for the love affair between humans and technology, in which a skin-clad gorilla projected on a large display is connected to a flesh-and-blood performer via a suit with motion capture installed. The work, which depicts the relationship between the two, as they search for a physical and emotional connection won the Takahiro Kaneshima Award and the Audience Award.
In his new sculpture and video work "Tina," presented in this exhibition, Yamauchi's desire to form love itself appears in an extremely fetishistic form. The body covered with countless long hairs can be seen as the embodiment of a kind of perverted sensibility that desires to be assimilated by the object of love. The exhibition is also a challenge to see how Yamauchi, who relies on smell and touch in the creation of his work, can evoke emotions in viewers through these senses, either as sculptures or images.
In addition to his new works, Yamauchi will also screen video work from the early stages of his career, such as “Sasuke" and "The Condor is Flying. In these films, Yamauchi appears in a world composed of simple 3D computer graphics and is characterized by his nimble adventures amidst the rough, reconstructed textures of the random landscapes he photographed. Yamauchi recalls that when he first saw the CG generated by 3D scanning at the time, he felt a matiere like clay without mass, and that he entered the world of the images as if he were touching the snaky CG with his hands, and that the humor that overflowed from Yamauchi's physicality was the starting point of fetishism that transformed into love.
The title of this exhibition refers to the underlying theme of Yamauchi's recent work "love" and to the work from the early stages of his career that brought his activities to the public's attention as “humor."
In his new sculpture and video work "Tina," presented in this exhibition, Yamauchi's desire to form love itself appears in an extremely fetishistic form. The body covered with countless long hairs can be seen as the embodiment of a kind of perverted sensibility that desires to be assimilated by the object of love. The exhibition is also a challenge to see how Yamauchi, who relies on smell and touch in the creation of his work, can evoke emotions in viewers through these senses, either as sculptures or images.
In addition to his new works, Yamauchi will also screen video work from the early stages of his career, such as “Sasuke" and "The Condor is Flying. In these films, Yamauchi appears in a world composed of simple 3D computer graphics and is characterized by his nimble adventures amidst the rough, reconstructed textures of the random landscapes he photographed. Yamauchi recalls that when he first saw the CG generated by 3D scanning at the time, he felt a matiere like clay without mass, and that he entered the world of the images as if he were touching the snaky CG with his hands, and that the humor that overflowed from Yamauchi's physicality was the starting point of fetishism that transformed into love.
The title of this exhibition refers to the underlying theme of Yamauchi's recent work "love" and to the work from the early stages of his career that brought his activities to the public's attention as “humor."
Schedule | Jul 16 (Sat) 2022-Aug 12 (Fri) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://eukaryote.jp/en/exhibition/shota_yamauchi_solo_ex/ | ||||
| Venue | Eukaryote http://eukaryote.jp/en/ | ||||
| Location | 3-41-3 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 155-0001 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from exit 3 at Gaienmae Station on the Ginza line, 13 minute walk from exit 5 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines, 15 minute walk from the Takeshita exit of Harajuku Station on the JR Yamanote line. | ||||
| Phone | 080-9524-6981 | ||||
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