Photo by Masumi Okuda
Masumi Okuda Exhibition
2020.9.28 - 10.10
Gallery Seiho
Tokyo
Make-believe - Empty
この作品は「Empty（空無）」シリーズの三作目となる。前二作（幻影・透過）はギリシャ彫刻へのオマージュ的な性質を含んでいるが、この作品ではここまでの試みを踏まえながら、私自身の表現を更に思索した。その結果、人物のフォルムは重力に押し潰されたかのように崩れて座像となり、《虚構》のような存在となった。しかし、それは人物の機能と非機能や、具象と抽象などの境界を示唆し、具象的なイメージに留まらない”境界”を直観した。この試みは、その後の「Cloud（雲）」シリーズへと発展する。
This work is the third in the “Empty” series. The first two works (Optical Illusion, Transparency) were a kind of homage to Greek sculpture, but in this work, I further contemplated my own expression based on the experiments I had done up to this point. As a result, the form of the human figure collapsed as if crushed by gravity, becoming a seated statue and becoming a being like a “make-believe”. However, it suggested the boundaries between the functional and non-functional, the concrete and the abstract, and gave us an intuitive sense of the “boundaries” that go beyond concrete images. This experiment developed into the “Cloud” series afterwards.