美術館でもっともよく目にする注意書き「Please do not touch」。触ることが前提とされるものも、美術品となると触れてはいけないものになります。触れなければ機能しないものに触れてはいけないという矛盾に着目し制作した作品です。鏡面に磨かれ積み上げられた真鍮のブロックは触れればずれが生じ、指紋が付着します。作品展という文脈に置かれたバランスゲームは、展示期間を経てどのように変化するのでしょうか。
The theme of this work is 'Please do not touch', which is the most common regulation in museums. Objects that are meant to be touched become something that should not be touched when they become works of art. This work was created with a focus on the contradiction of not touching something that does not function unless you touch it. The highly polished brass and the structure of this game allow it to reveal traces of every touch. How will the balancing game, placed in the context of an exhibition of artworks, change over the period of the exhibition?
Please do not touch, 2017, 7.5 × 7.5 × 16.5 cm. Brass. Photo by Ayako Nishibori
Mika Yamakoshi
Jewellery artist & hairdresser
WORKS:
The Exchange Example, 2024
Pieces, 2023
Object Lesson, 2022
Please Do Not Touch, 2017
A Consideration of the Rule, 2017
Stories of Absence, 2017
Pen/dant, 2017
Subjective Time Measurement, 2017
Take It With You —Slight Mercy—, 2015
EXHIBITIONS:
Pieces, SOOT, Tokyo, JP, 2023
Object Lesson, necoma, Tokyo, JP, 2022
Object Lesson, C7C gallery, Nagoya, JP, 2021
Artists Fair Kyoto, Kyoto, JP, 2021
Object Lesson, Kamome Books, Tokyo, JP, 2020
Re-importation, Tokyo, JP, 2017
RESIDENCY:
TRACTOR, D’CLINIC Studios, HU, 2018
PUBLICATION:
Press, 2019
EDUCATION:
Jewellery Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL, 2017
Foundation Course, Central Saint Martins, London, UK, 2014
Nippon Beauty Academy, Tokyo, JP, 2006
BORN:
Tokyo, JP
CONTACT:
contact@mikyam.com
@_mikyam_