A broad selection of artworks on the first floor, each creatively juxtaposed within the interwoven environments envisioned by Yutaka Inagawa. All photos by Kensuke Hashimoto (photos with * taken by Yutaka Inagawa) | Courtesy of Art Gallery Miyauchi
下階｜インスタレーション・ビュー
下階では、個と集合体の境界を行き来しながら複数の方向へ接続を広げていく、リゾーム的な地下茎をフロア全体のイメージとして構想した。それぞれの作品や空間の条件に応じて、作品が存在するための異なるテイラーメイドの環境を構築。単に壁面や床面のどこに作品を配置するかということではなく、空間の角や辺、天井、既存の建築的構造、他の作品や展示什器、さらに稲川自身による創作ユニットや空間への介入など、複数の要素との関係から、それぞれの作品が置かれる固有の環境を立ち上げた。
さらに、こうして個別に構築された環境もそれぞれ完結したものとして切り分けるのではなく、互いに重なり合い、隣り合い、ときに干渉しながら、複数の方向へ関係を開いていくものとして構成した。ある作品を取り巻く環境が隣接する別の作品や環境へと接続し、その関係がさらに別の要素へと波及することで、複数の焦点と接続可能性を持つ、全体として多方向に開かれた風景をフロア全体に形成した。
その方法は作品ごとに異なり、異なるアーティストの作品を干渉的に並置する、稲川自身が制作した蛍光色の木材、ロープ、サテンによるソフト・スカルプチャーなどの創作ユニットを介在させる、さらにギャラリーにもともと存在する什器や家具、仮設壁、天井、壁、床、角や辺など、空間固有の建築的・構造的特徴を再解釈し、展示環境の一部として巻き込むなど、多岐にわたる。
こうした異なる介入と接続を通して、作品、創作ユニット、展示構造、既存の空間がその都度異なる関係を結び、それぞれを単独で提示した場合には生じ得ない、一時的なconfiguration（複合的な構成体）が各所に立ち現れることを試みた。
写真：橋本健佑（＊印の写真：稲川豊）｜提供：アートギャラリーミヤウチ
*A diverse collection of artworks on the first floor, each creatively juxtaposed within the enigmatic realms designed by Yutaka Inagawa.
Featuring Rikako Kawauchi ('in the morning', 2023)
Showcasing works by Rikako Kawauchi( ('magic antler', 2024) alongside 'Samba of Insects' by Junkichi Kageyama from the Art Gallery Miyauchi collection
A diverse collection of artworks on the first floor, each creatively juxtaposed within the enigmatic realms designed by Yutaka Inagawa.
Yu Araki ('FUEL', 2019) and The Portland Inn Project’s 'The Portland Pigeon' playfully juxtaposed within bespoke environments crafted by Yutaka Inagawa
The Portland Inn Project’s 'The Portland Pigeon' was placed on the surface of Yu Araki's projection 'FUEL' (2019).
*Featuring South Ho's "Mythical Shelter" (2023) in the middle of the photo.
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Featuring Alma Tischlerwood ('FRAGILE STATES', 2024) , Kara Chin ('Inaugurare', 2023) , and South Ho (‘Mythical Shelter', 2023)
Alma Tischlerwood ('FRAGILE STATES', 2024)
Featuring a series of eight A1-sized posters displaying manipulated email correspondences reenacted by AI avatars of both Yutaka Inagawa and Taro Izumi.
Email Correspondence via Otherworldly Avatars
Drawing on the actual email exchanges up to a certain point between artist-curator Yutaka Inagawa and participating artist Taro Izumi, this 'manipulation' by the artist-curator employs ChatGPT to create avatars that mimic their writing styles, tastes, and philosophical inclinations, generating fictional email correspondences. Inagawa directed AI to craft multiple patterns of email exchanges, then fragmented the resulting texts down to paragraph and even line levels. Through reconstructing and combining these fragments, a distinctive email thread with a parallel worldview was established.
[Read the actual 8 posters here]
Featuring Kara Chin ('Inaugurare', 2023)
The Portland Inn Project’s The 100 Year Plan campaign consists of four images as part of a billboard campaign, featuring photography by Felicity Crawshaw and graphic design by Dan Muir. These posters identify the four pillars of the Portland Street neighbourhood's 100 Year Plan.]
Artworks by Kyung Hwa Shon, Rikako Kawauchi, Alma Tischlerwood, Sai, The Portland Inn Project and Gary Clough, complemented by Junkichi Kageyama's 'Samba of Insects', thoughtfully juxtaposed in the spaces architected by Yutaka Inagawa.
Alma Tischlerwood’s video compilation, ‘FRAGILE STATES' (2024), projected onto a bespoke structure using rearranged furniture and creative units, including coloured and trimmed timber and black rope.
Featuring Gary Clough's 'Blue Repair Vessel' (2024) and Sai's '当我们同在一起 (Together) No. 3' (2023), presented with rearranged wooden display tables from Art Gallery Miyauchi, along with coloured and trimmed timber and soft sculptures by artist-curator Yutaka Inagawa.
Featuring Kyung Hwa Shon's '39N 125E 22' (2024), a new work derived from her ongoing project 'In the Flow: Onomichi and Korea', hung on a bespoke wall with slits designed by artist-curator Yutaka Inagawa.
*photo: Yutaka Inagawa
Two large prints on paper attached to rectangular cuboids, '39N 125E 00-01' and '39N 125E 00-02' by Kyung Hwa Shon.
Featuring Sai ('当我们同在一起 (Together) No. 3', 2023)
Featuring Sai ('当我们同在一起 (Together) No. 5', 2023) and The Portland Inn Projects ('Portland Palissy Ware', 2023)
*Featuring Ryo Uchida and Ayaka Ura, "Discussion where flies gather" (17 April 2024) / "Diary about relationship with (a lacked)" (9 April 2024), 2023.
*Photo: Yutaka Inagawa
Artist Ayaka Ura's work, "Discussion where flies gather (17 April 2024) / Diary about relationship with (a lacked) (9 April 2024)," features handwritten texts on a constructed structure and laser-printed text on a sheet of paper. She also brought her previous scrapbook, "There is no political position with Tinder, Baby" (2017/2024), to reuse as part of her new work.
Ura used a whiteboard and allocated wall space to capture her experience in the gallery during the setup, responding to stimuli through observation, writing, and drawing, reflecting on her personal memories and encounters with death and life.
She also created an open space where visitors can brainstorm on a whiteboard to translate and verbalize 'absent relationships,' serving as an alternative form of mourning.
Featuring Kara Chin ('Fitbit Worship', 2020)
Featuring Ryo Uchida ('the case of diamonds', 2022) and ('about the weather #1', 2022)
Exhibiting Kara Chin's 'Bad Insulation' (2024), placed on a sculptural pedestal alongside creative units by artist-curator Yutaka Inagawa.
Featuring Kara Chin ('Inaugurare', 2023)
Featuring Ryo Uchida's 'Triangle Cutout #2~#4, #6~#8' (2021), surrounded by creative units designed by Yutaka Inagawa
Featuring Ryo Uchida's 'Triangle Cutout #2~#4, #6~#8' (2021), set within a bespoke environment designed by artist-curator Yutaka Inagawa
This selection of posters is a small range of designed artworks made in collaboration with residents of the Portland Street neighbourhood. Each poster seeks to share and make visible the community and its story. A larger format poster is "Email Correspondence via Otherworldly Avatars.
