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Critical

2021, Water, sand, mirror, Dimensions variable

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Critical
2021, Water, sand, mirror

“This is an imagined sea that goes on forever.
If the sea level were to rise, this would be the first place to sink beneath the waves.
The current seabed is not beautiful; this pure white seabed is imagined. Amid reality, an imaginary horizon reaches endlessly out.
When gazing into the distance, or leaving the eyes unfocused, the brain urges the work of imagining on.
I discovered this in works I created
When people look over the horizon or beyond the sky, expectation and awe are combined in their imagination: This, I believe, has been the case since the earliest times.”

The sea, source of all life, stretches out before the viewer like a garden, a margin be- tween nature and the everyday. The sea is also a symbol of fertility, but it holds menace, too, knowledge of which fact has already been forced on a socialized humanity on countless occasions.
The Japanese title of this exhibition is Atarashii umi, meaning “A new sea,” and this work is a symbol of that idea. It invites us to discoveries beyond all binary oppositions—beyond acceptance or rejection, beyond birth or death. Ceaselessly dancing with each other and with the environments and beings around them, both sea and garden will continue to shape the future alongside us.

Quoted from a handout of “EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021)

Critical, 2021
Water, sand, mirror
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Critical, 2021
Water, sand, mirror
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Critical, 2021
Water, sand, mirror
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Critical, 2021
Water, sand, mirror
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Critical, 2021
Water, sand, mirror
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Critical, 2021
Water, sand, mirror
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Critical, 2021
Water, sand, mirror
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Critical, 2021
Water, sand, mirror
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo