2020.02.03 - 2020.02.16

西村勇人 Hayato Nishimura
Mounds

西村勇人 Hayato Nishimura「Mounds_1」

西村勇人 Hayato Nishimura「Mounds_2」

西村勇人 Hayato Nishimura「Mounds_3」



このシリーズは、現代人の暮らしの傍らでそれとは無関係に存在しつつ景色のなかで交ざり合う古墳に着目して、歳月の積層の上に生きる人間のありようを現出させることを試みるものである。古墳は十数世紀前に権力者の眠る墓として象徴性も持ちつつ築造されたが、現在に至る過程とりわけ高度成長期の急激な都市化において尊厳を保持されないかたちで毀損され、または都市のうちに埋もれ静安を保てなくなっているものが少なくない。ごく近年に文化遺産としての価値が認識され、保護・保全の対象となってきたものの、すでに進んだ都市化のために家屋・公共施設や公共インフラなどとの間に緩衝もなく墳丘が残る景観は、時間も意識も大きく隔たる人間の営みが隣り合う奇異な相をなしている。

This series is intended to find the way humans live on the layers of the ages, focusing on the ancient burial mounds (called Kofun in Japanese) that exist in the landscape while being irrelevant to the lives of modern people. The ancient burial mounds were built in East Asia, including Japan, as grave where persons in authority sleep a dozen centuries ago. There are many mounds that have been damaged in ways that do not preserve dignity, or are buried in cities and are unable to keep quiet in the urbanization in later generations, especially in modern times. Although the value as a cultural heritage has been recognized and has been the subject of protection and conservation in recent years, there is no buffer between the mounds and the houses, public facilities or public infrastructure due to the already advanced urbanization. The landscape has a strange aspect in which human activities are separated by time and consciousness.

■プロフィール Profile
 1977 島根県生まれ Born in Shimane, Japan

■主な展示
 2019 “Commons” MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w(京都)
 2018 “遠ツ根ノ国” RED Photo Gallery(東京)
 2018 “Interference Experiment” MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w(京都)
 2017 “Commons” MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w(京都)・元淳風小学校(京都)
 2016 “宇宙は数学の言葉で書かれている” RED Photo Gallery(東京)
 2016 “Thinkings” MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w(京都)
 2015 “Spectrum”: 大坪晶との二人展 M2 Gallery, Tokyo and Bloom Gallery(大阪)
 2014 “Cool Physics” MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w(京都)
 2013 “No Curiosity, No Life” 函館市地域交流まちづくりセンター(函館)
 2012 “Thinkings” M2 Gallery(東京)
 2012 “No Curiosity, No Life” コニカミノルタプラザ(東京)
 2012 “根ノ国” M2 Gallery(東京)
 2011 “From the Lab Bench” M2 Gallery(東京)
 2010 “No Curiosity, No Life” Place M(東京)

■Exhibition
 2019 “Commons” MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w, Kyoto
 2018 “Distant Ne-no-kuni” RED Photo Gallery, Tokyo
 2018 “Interference Experiment” MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w, Kyoto
 2017 “Commons” MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w, Kyoto and Former Junpu Elementary School, Kyoto
 2016 “universo é scritto in lingua matematica” RED Photo Gallery , Tokyo
 2016 “Passage” RED Photo Gallery, Tokyo
 2016 “Thinkings” MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w, Kyoto
 2015 “Spectrum”: exhibition with Akira Otsubo M2 Gallery, Tokyo and Bloom Gallery, Osaka
 2014 “Cool Physics” MATSUO MEGUMI+VOICE GALLERY pfs/w, Kyoto
 2013 “No Curiosity, No Life” Hokodate Community Design Center, Hakodate, Hokkaido
 2012 “Thinkings” M2 Gallery, Tokyo
 2012 “No Curiosity, No Life” KONICA-MINOLTA Plaza, Tokyo
 2012 “Ne-no-kuni” M2 Gallery, Tokyo
 2011 “From the Lab Bench” M2 Gallery, Tokyo
 2010 “No Curiosity, No Life” Place M, Tokyo