InstallationPerformance
Second Texture (Feel)
2021
Only Image
An exhibition created with inspiration from manga artist Daijiro Morohoshi’s “Kaokaosama ga Toru.”
From questions about the boundary between the self and the world, and how others perceive the existence of someone other than themselves, the exhibition brought together works that express, in various forms, the skin that can be seen by others as the very identity of that existence.
It is an installation in which a video showing diverse skins layering over an object molded from the artist’s own face like a liquid, a sculpture in which the upper and lower halves of a torso are separated and face one another, a novel about an imaginary sister, and a performance by the artist are all merged into one.
These ideas stem from a reactive obsession with skin and the body that arose while the pandemic had yet to come to an end.