Photography: Shinji Murakami
Photography: Shinji Murakami
Photography: Shinji Murakami
2008
『東京都青梅市西分町3丁目123』
Art Program Ome 2008
"3-123 Nishibuncho, Ome City, Tokyo"
Ome Textile Industry Cooperative Association Facilities (Tokyo)
soil, etc.
2008
『東京都青梅市西分町3丁目123』
Art Program Ome 2008
"3-123 Nishibuncho, Ome City, Tokyo"
Ome Textile Industry Cooperative Association Facilities (Tokyo)
soil, etc.
Photography: Shinji Murakami
Photography: Shinji Murakami
Color, Light, Particles, Temperature, Scent, Quantity, Time, Texture
Name, Distance, Ridge, Place Name, Boundary, Elevation, Soil
By visiting the site and conducting thorough research, I seek clues for my work by witnessing the moment when a place becomes a landscape, or a material. Using various ever-changing lands and environments as motifs, I not only depict them in my landscape paintings, but also fix the soil, a symbol of the land, directly into the artwork. This process transforms the existing original landscape into a record and memory, becoming a work of art.
In this exhibition, soil was collected from several locations on the site, dried, and classified by particle size. These were then divided into three spaces, and the "former women's changing room" itself was reconstructed as a landscape.
At the Ome Art Program held in 2008, Yoshitaka Nanjo presented an installation using the former women's changing room, which remained on the site, as his stage. This work does not prominently display a clear theme, but rather is created by quietly intervening in the changes of time and matter inherent in the place itself. Inside the dilapidated building, traces of nature encroaching on man-made structures remain, but upon careful observation, one notices the presence of intentionally piled-up sand and soil. Nature and artificiality are not clearly separated, but ambiguously coexist, gradually awakening the viewer's perception.
Nanjo's creative process begins with visiting locations, conducting thorough research, and witnessing the moment when a place transforms into a landscape or a material object. In this exhibition, soil collected from several locations on the site is sorted by drying and particle size, and then arranged in three separate spaces, reconstructing the changing room itself as a landscape. What emerges there is not nostalgia, but rather the feeling of time continuously being generated as past memories resonate with the present. This work can be positioned as an attempt to create a new perception of the relationship between place and time, while staying close to the decaying reality, without falling into nostalgia or negative representations of ruins.