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PRESS RELEASE SNOW Contemporary
2015/2/1
KOTA TAKEUCHI “Re:Eyes on Hand”
study for “Eyes on Hand”
session:2015/3/7(Sat) ‒ 22(Sun) 13:00 ‒ 20:00 *closed on Mondays
opening reception: 3/7(Sat) 18:00 ‒ 20:00
venue:SNOW Contemporary (XYZ collective) 2-‐30-‐20 1F Tsurumaki Setagaya Tokyo
■Kota Takeuchi -‐ Re : Eyes on Hand
SNOW Contemporary is pleased to announce Kota Takeuchi solo exhibition from March 7th (Saturday)
through March 22nd, 2015.
Takeuchi in his previous works had for example suddenly appeared as a proxy workman pointing on the
Fukuichi live camera as in solo exhibition "Open Secret" (2012/SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo) and made
viewers of disasters come to appearance, or had followed memories engraved in buildings as in solo
exhibition "Sight Consuming Shadow" (2013/Mori Museum, Fukushima), continuously allowing people's
viewpoints and consciousness towards the public expressed in his artwork. Those artworks contain the
universalistic characters of the currently society, and had being exhibited and highly evaluated not only
in Japan but also overseas.
left:Finger Pointing Worker “Pointing at Fukuichi live-‐cam” video 24min50sec
right:”Demolition of Mihako-‐Theater” 2013 video installation
This exhibition entitled "Re:Eyes on Hand" will become his third solo exhibition, and would featuring
new works including installations and video works.
"Eyes on Hand" is a Yokai (Japanese monster) with an eyeball on his palm.
What kind of landscape are we seeing from our palms, where now everybody carries a device in our
hands which provide us with such vast and various information? Within this exhibition, Takeuchi further
deepens his interest from before, and recaptures our memory and imagination within the society which
we live everyday. Please look forward to the world of "Re:Eyes on Hand" by Takeuchi.
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■Re : Eyes on Hand – Artist Statement
The title of this exhibition "Re:Eyes on Hand" represents the attempt to revoke a "Eyes on Hand", a kind
of Japanese Yokai (monster) in shape of a Zatp with an eyeball in its palm. Its theme are people trying to
"touch there eyes" seeking for their memory. *note
People wandering around with their cell phone devices with monitors are just alike "Eyes on Hand". The
device allowing things without existence to be seen with their hands are alike allowing a partial function
of the eye being transferred to the hand. It is a haptic device. Perhaps seeing the world through lenses
and monitors are blind behaviors, like using a torch in daytime.
The people looking at photographs/video images with their tools are alike wandering around the
transparent space with an indicator in hand and seeking for fractional light, trying to "touch" the object
with their eyes. Perhaps are they not trying to redeem their physical feeling in the world and technology
harsh for grasping trails, by "touching with their eyes." An experience of transparency, projection,
numerical, and seeking for light.
On the other hand there is the image of actually layering the "imprinted" image as a trace of the sight
vision, light ray and heat, onto the surface of a paper. The object exposed to light then undergoes a
relay of an optical relay, and then results in a state of "being touched with an eye" on the surface of the
printed paper. The experience of non-‐transparency, physicality, the skin (the film), and receiving light.
However, if photography/video films are simply understood as something to be "touched with an eye"
and being received, or something which provides an evidence to the human eye, only what becomes
visualized would be valued. This brings up the debate of authenticity — what is true and false. I would
like understanding what kind of eyesight would be guided, and what kind of desire of the
photographer/the editor is exposed there — for example, how they scrabbled for the haptic sense
within the world of transparency with technology where physical traces are lean, and including such
condition of the eyesight and the hand, I would like to call them images and/or memories.
In this exhibition, the reappearance of photography/film images as tools are exaggerated. The artwork
does not become an evidence of actuality. Instead, it intends to edge into the eyesights of the viewers,
and reassemble the relationship of traces and memories (or in other words, the relationship of "history
and imaginary"), through replication as the "Eyes on Hand." With an old photograph from the past, and
the future technology in our hand.
December 22nd, 2014
*note
I came up with the idea inspired by people wandering around with radiation counters and cameras,
news reporting troubles caused by walking while operating the smart-‐phones, and the action of Masao
Okabe who was making frottages in Namie and Minami Soma.
■biography
2008 Tokyo University of the Arts, B.A. in Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo
■SOLO EXHIBITION
2013 “Site Consuming Shadow” Mori Museum, Fukushima
2012 "Open Secret", SNOW Contemporary Tokyo
■GROUP EXHIBITION
2014 "The Fifth Season" James Cohan Gallery, NY / USA
2013 "Media / Art Kitchen", Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok/Thailand
"Art/Domestic: Temperature of the Future after Takashi Azumaya" ARATANIURANO|YAMAMOTO
GENDAI, Tokyo
"MOT Collection After images of tomorrow" Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"SIDE CORE -‐ Body / Media / Graffiti" Terratoria, Tokyo
"The 42th exhibition of Iwaki", Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima
2012 "Tomorrow is today I see for the first time. " SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo
"Dance on a Thin Line" Center for Developing Culture, Daegu/Korea
"Turning Around" Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2011 "Social Dive -‐ Exploratory Imagination", 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2010 "Eun Hyung Kim, Emilija Skarnulyte, Kota Takeuchi" RM Gallery, Auckland/New Zealand
"THE 10th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2010", The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
"Kyoto Open Studios 2010", Kenbundou-‐Studio, Kyoto
2009 "101TOKYO Contemporary Art Fair 2009"
"101 DISCOVERIES", AKIBA-‐SQUARE, Tokyo
"FRESH SELECTION", ARTZONE, Kyoto
2008 "FRESH" URBAN BACK-‐SIDE LABORATORY R2, Chiba
■RESIDENCE PROGRAM
2010 "Wongok-‐dong Recipe" Litmus Community Space, Ansan/Korea
■AWARD
2013 prize in "The 42th exhibition of Iwaki"
2010 encouragement award "THE 10th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2010"
■PUBLIC COLLECTION
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo