Format
installation
painting
video
This work is themed around a seafood restaurant the artists uncle is running in Obama City, Fukui Prefecture. It all started with arequest to create a sign to be put up at the storefront, eventually resulting in a large picture crammed with various images related the region, ranging from the japanese mermaid legend “Yaobikuni” to US President Obama(for the similarity of names),and the”Sabatora Nanachan” character advertising a local fish specialty. Avideo shows the uncle as he talks enthusiastically about the restaurant’s past and future. The prosperous sea that he is so proud of is at once a place where the generation of nuclear power has been supporting the regional economy. Personal history revolving around the sea and the family,and the raw politics of nuclear energy flow together to define a peculiar vision that could only be realized through a blood relationship,and based on which this work was constructed.
Text by Mika Kuraya
Exhibition:TOKYO WONDER SITE EMERGING 2012
Date:August 4ー26, 2012
Venue:TOKYO WONDER SITE Hongo
Format
drawing
installation
painting
performance
sculpture
video
Collaboration work and exhibition with three members of alternative space “Gell alterna”.
11 members of OLTA and Gell alterna became fictional authors, and they wrote a story. An exhibition based on the produced story was held.
https://gellalterna.wixsite.com/gellalterna/blank-4
Exhibition:Fold spelling,thick knit
Date:July 22 ーAugust 5, 2012
Venue : gellalterna
OLTA:Jang-Chi、HASEGAWA Yoshiro, KAWAMURA Kazuhide, UMEDA Gosuke, SAITO Takafumi, INOUE Toru, TAKAGI Makito, MEGUNINJA
direction:Issei Kurihara, Taketo Kobayashi, Ryota Tanaka
Photo: KATO Ken
Talking head
2012
Performance, Sculpture
2000×500×500mm
wood, speaker, enamel paint
One picture a day
2010
Painting
Photo: KATO Ken
Photo: KATO Ken
Photo: KATO Ken
Photo: KATO Ken
Photo: KATO Ken
Photo: KATO Ken