Description
Although titled Self Portrait Vessel, the work is not a portrait of myself.
Beginning with portraits of artists, fictional characters, and historical figures who have influenced me, I grasp, crush, tear, and reconnect the clay. Through this repetition, the portraits are gradually drawn toward my own body, dissolving and eventually losing their distinct contours.
Even when my hands intend to reproduce someone else’s face, memories of the past become intertwined with my present body, reassembling themselves as memory-images into the likeness of someone entirely different.
A mask is a device for receiving another being into the body, and can also serve as a means of transforming the body into a “vessel.”
Through the structure of the mask as a means of receiving others, the work moves between intentional quotation and accidental mitate(reinterpretation through resemblance), attempting to give sculptural form to the memories and relationships with others that have shaped my sense of self, as a self-portrait.
説明
「Self Portrait Vessel」は自画像と名づけているが、私自身の肖像ではない。
自身が影響を受けてきた芸術家やキャラクター、歴史上の人物たちの肖像を起点として、土を握り、押し潰し、裂き、繋ぎ直す。その反復のなかで、肖像は次第に私自身の身体へと引き寄せられて溶け出し、やがて輪郭を失う。
手は誰かの顔を再現しているつもりでも、過去の記憶は現在の身体と結びつき、記憶イマージュとしてまた別の誰かの像を結び直す。
仮面とは、身体に他なる存在を向かい入れるための道具であり、身体を「器化」する装置ともなり得る。
他者を受け入れる仮面の構造を通して、意図的な引用と偶発的な見立てを往復しながら、自身を形成してきた記憶や他者との関係を自画像として造形する試み。
