Group Exhibition: ATAMI ART GRANT  四肢の向かう先 / Standing ovation

Materials:

Seawater (collected in Atami), Rock salt (from Pakistan and Nepal), Driftwood (from Atami), Soil (from Hokkaido), Silk (from France), Stone (from Atami), Feather (from France), Light bulb, Machine controlled by binary code (based on natural sound rhythms recorded in Atami, November 5–13, 2021)

Description:

“This installation mixes the artificial and natural as well as the animate and inanimate. One of the most notable features of the work is the use of rock salt. Crystallized on land when the seafloor was uplifted due to tectonic movements in ancient times, we might call rock salt a ‘fossil’ of seawater. In Yasura’ s work, as a result of the entanglement of several factors, rock salt, a fossil born in the distant sea is hatched in this space and moment.”

Text by Yuu Takagi

Engineer: Saito Yusuke
Photo: Yuu Takagi, Naoki Takehisa