Shinnosuke Yoshida
PERISCOPE
August 14 (Sat) --September 11 (Sat), 2021
PERISCOPE
2021
HD Video / Stereo sound
Edition of 10
11min37sec
I think the world I can see from my small movements, wearing a mask and just going around among Nippori where I live, Ueno where I work, and the Internet, is really like a silhouette.
It seems that I need to stay inside of myself for a while yet.
From there, I look into the PERISCOPE like drawing circles every day.
Amid happening big news in a row, I'm bothered by how I cook the chicken, teriyaki or cutlet II_latest ver.oil
2018 - 2021
Oil on canvas
259.0 x 194.0 cm
I finished and showed this work once in 2018.
The title of this work, “Amid happening big news in a row, I'm bothered by how I cook the chicken, teriyaki or cutlet,” was the whole sentence of the tweet my acquaintance posted on Twitter at 9:08 pm on February 14, 2017. On this day, many Japanese mass media reported the news that Kim Jong-Nam, the big brother of Kim Jong-il who is the leader of North Korea, was assassinated in Malaysia.
When I looked up at the real world from the phone screen reported the news, I found my own daily life such as doing laundry, having meals, and thinking about my own life. I turned my eyes back to my phone again, then I found the tweet.
I wanted to put the inspiration I got from the moment into work, and I represented the work at my last solo exhibition in 2017.
In June 2017, the US-North Korea summit meeting was held in Singapore, and media began to make noise again. I wanted to make another work of the spectacle happing on the surface of the media and the existence of my personal life at the same time. So, I created a new version of the painting.
After that, this work had storage in my studio for a while, but I wanted to update this painting when the pandemic by COVID-19 have changed the way people and their lives around the world in 2020.
The huge change is as if the data I played was overwritten on the different games. I literally overwrote the latest version and keep the concept of “Amid happening big news in a row, I'm bothered by how I cook the chicken, teriyaki or cutlet.”
It is also like new formations have been created.
One of the things I wanted to express in this work may be stuffy.
Suffocation, we feel when we can only see the fragments and cannot see through the overall picture.
The suffocation, like being buried in the stratum.
Suffocation, like being covered with noise.
Room with Plants - Fire on the Opposite Shore
2019 - 2020
Oil on lawn cloth, rabbit-skin glue
162.0 x 162.0 cm
I had created this work from 2019 to 2020.
The theme of this work is the distance between the flame wars of others in some incidents, accidents, and media at the time and myself who is connected to them with one plate.
Regarding the material, I have been interested in new media for the supports since 2019. In this work, I used the lawn cloth applied rabbit glue for the canvas. I am attracted to the material gap in which a transparent and delicate film of the glue supports a rough and heavy layer of oil paint.
IMG_20191019
2019 - 2021
Oil on canvas, rabbit-skin glue
100.0 x 100.0 cm
The motif of this painting is the last heartbeat of my grandmother who passed away on October 19, 2019, due to senility. Fortunately, I was able to hold her hands until the end of her life.
I felt the heartbeat at the moment when she ended her 92 years of life, that is, the moment when her heartbeat stopped through her hands I hold.
Through the screen
2019 --2021
Oil, charcoal on canvas, rabbit-skin glue
45.5 x 53.0 cm
It is a work entitled "Over the screen".
In Korona-ka, communication with others over the screen was forced.
The faces of others seen through the screen are always one-way,
Furthermore, if the other party is wearing a mask, the information and nuances of others that can be read from it will be significantly reduced.
The rich information of others, including impurities, has been filtered by the screen and mask.
This work is drawn from the back of the canvas.
It is a work with a structure in which the face drawn directly can be seen only when the other side of the screen, that is, the canvas is turned inside out.
Through the mask
2019 --2021
Oil on canvas, rabbit-skin glue
53.0 x 45.5 cm
It is a work entitled "Over the Mask".
Outside the window = I made it with the intention of creating a gap between the impression of the work when viewed from outside the gallery and the impression when viewed from inside the gallery.
Various binary opposition elements such as inside and outside, light and dark, color and monochrome, oppression and liberation, dream and reality are arranged and contrasted on each side, and contradictions and conflicts with reality and what happens next occur. I tried to express the "suspended state" as an uncertain state.
Now, when trying to display this work on an ordinary white wall, which one should be turned upside down?
Forest-Not Forest II
Mori Ⅲ ――
The Forest --Not Exist
The Forest II
The Forest III --Exist
2019 --2021
Oil on canvas, rabbit-skin glue
22.7 x 22.7 cm
This work is a series of works drawn on the rabbit glue canvas, which has been researching materials since 2019.
"Forest III-Iru" depicts a beloved bird in a bird cage. The bird is drawn from the back and can be seen through the transparent canvas from the surface.
I sometimes wonder if my beloved bird in my room is really happy.
This series is also related to the content of the video work "PERISCOPE" exhibited in this solo exhibition.