記号区域: Imaginary Section

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記号区域: Imaginary Section
11 SEP – 9 OCT, 2021
STANDING PINE (Aichi, Japan)

 

インテクストの新しいシリーズ「記号区域:Imaginary Section」は、サイン(記号)が都市空間につきつける矛盾や不合理に焦点を当て、現代社会に潜む奇妙な現実を浮かび上がらせます。都市の中の記号を作品へと昇華させ、社会やシステムの裏側にある様々な問題を見るものに想像させていきます。

ある日、煌々と光る駐車場の「空」のサインをメンバーが目にした時、過密化し、地価が高騰する都市の実態と対比する様に、駐車場が誰も立ち入らない空疎な場所に変化していることに気付きます。駐車場の空き状態を示す「空」の文字が、そうした都市の空虚さや白々しさをもアイロニカルに表す様子は、メンバーの好奇心を強く掻き立てました。

今回、インテクストはそうした体験をヒントに、駐車場のサインシステムを用いたインスタレーションを展開します。ギャラリー空間に設置される車止め、液晶表示器、空、白線のオブジェは、どれも空間を仮想的に分断し区切る装置として提示されます。サインシステムの本来の役割とは別に、サインが示す意味と空間の関係から、都市の様々な問題を想像させ、アンビバレントな感情を生み出すことを試みます。

Consisting of graphic designers Hisashi Toyama and Yusuke Mimasu, as well as programmer Takehisa Mashimo, intext reimagines the systems and formats inherent in design, taking them as a form of artistic expression, thus enabling them to work in a way that is not confined to client work both in Japan and abroad.

Their new series of works, “記号区域: Imaginary Section”, focuses on the contradictions and irrationality of signs in urban spaces, shedding light on the strange realities of contemporary society. In elevating the urban sign to artworks, it becomes a medium through which we see the various underlying problems in a society and its systems.

This time, intext will present works that focus on coin parking lots found in urban spaces. In various places late at night, ‘vacant’ signs burn brightly in the parking lots. On seeing this, one of the members notices that the parking lot has become a place where nobody sets foot, as if in direct contrast to the over-populated and over-priced urban land around them. The ironic way in which the ‘vacant’ sign – signifying the empty state of the parking lot – contradicts the actual state of the city, stirred their curiosity into urban sign systems, thus becoming the starting point for this work.

For this exhibition, signs and structural elements found in coin parking lots have been cut out and incorporated into an installation work that reconfigures the gallery space, generating a sense of ambivalence between urban signs and real space.