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Wall-like structures block the entrance and fill the galleries and corridors. No one, not even the staff, says that they move. Visitors who touch them, lean on them, or push them find that they shift, and that each shift opens a different view of the room.
Decorator Crab—Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement《デコレータークラブ—配置・調整・周遊》, 2022
Installation view: Range of the Senses: What It Means to “Experience” Today
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Dimensions variable. Wood, aluminum truss frame, casters, paint
Photo: © Takehiro Iikawa, courtesy of the artist
The title follows the order in which things happen. The walls are placed in advance (Arrangement). Visitors, without being told, try them and move them (Adjustment). Pushing, nudging, and touching the walls, they find themselves walking on and around the room without having decided to (Movement).
Photo: © Hyogo Mugyuda, courtesy of the artist
Photo: © Hyogo Mugyuda, courtesy of the artist
Photo: © Takehiro Iikawa, courtesy of the artist
Photo: © Takehiro Iikawa, courtesy of the artist
Decorator Crab—Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement《デコレータークラブ—配置・調整・周遊》, 2020
Installation view: Yokohama Triennale 2020—Afterglow
Yokohama Museum of Art and PLOT 48, Kanagawa, Japan
Dimensions variable. Wood, paint, casters
Photo: © Takehiro Iikawa, courtesy of the artist
Photo: © Takehiro Iikawa, courtesy of the artist
Photo: © Takehiro Iikawa, courtesy of the artist
I wanted to betray the expectations of the people who will come to my exhibition. An exhibition is promoted, on posters and the museum’s website, using images of the featured artworks. I think, for the audience, an exhibition is like a game of looking for those featured works in the museum. As the artworks are supposed to be thoroughly enjoyable, people spend holidays or their spare time at museums. They make reservations and pay admission fees. This is perhaps because people trust museums and such places. In a sense, it is a place that does not betray expectations.
For example, you receive information that a certain artist’s “yellow painting” is on special display, visit the museum to check out the yellow painting, and spend time standing in front of it, thinking about it. You purchase the exhibition catalog and souvenir items of the yellow painting. On the way home from the museum, you talk about the yellow painting and seeing yellow things reminds you of the painting.
This cycle has become a mechanism revolving around artworks and audiences at museums and other public art spaces nationwide. This is relevant in thinking about viewership in all kinds of entertainment. I wanted to create an exhibition by riding on such an expected mechanism and to make the time of viewing artworks a little more special. I decided not to display paintings, sculptures, photographs, or anything that would look like an artwork in the space where I install Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement.
Decorator Crab—Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement《デコレータークラブ—配置・調整・周遊》, 2018
Installation view: Decorator Crab—Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement, A-Lab Exhibition Vol. 16
AMAGASAKI A-Lab, Hyogo, Japan
Dimensions variable. Wood, casters, paint
Photo: © Hyogo Mugyuda, courtesy of the artist
Photo: © Hyogo Mugyuda, courtesy of the artist
Photo: © Hyogo Mugyuda, courtesy of the artist
Photo: © Hyogo Mugyuda, courtesy of the artist
Maquette for Decorator Crab—Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement
Photo: © Hyogo Mugyuda, courtesy of the artist
Documentation video: Decorator Crab—Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement《デコレータークラブ—配置・調整・周遊》, 2018
Installation view: Decorator Crab—Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement, A-Lab Exhibition Vol. 16
AMAGASAKI A-Lab, Hyogo, Japan
Dimensions variable. Wood, casters, paint
Video: © Takehiro Iikawa, courtesy of the artist, 5 min
Documentation video: Decorator Crab—Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement《デコレータークラブ—配置・調整・周遊》, 2022
Installation view: Range of the Senses: What It Means to “Experience” Today
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Dimensions variable. Wood, aluminum truss frame, casters, paint
Video: © Takehiro Iikawa, courtesy of the artist, 37 min
Documentation video: Decorator Crab—Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement《デコレータークラブ—配置・調整・周遊》, 2022
Installation view: Range of the Senses: What It Means to “Experience” Today
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Dimensions variable. Wood, aluminum truss frame, casters, paint
Video: © Takehiro Iikawa, courtesy of the artist, 8 min
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