archegraph study_Tainan – Yuya Suzuki Solo Exhibition

【 archegraph study_Tainan – Yuya Suzuki Solo Exhibition】 Date｜2018/9/1 Sat. - 9/30 Sun. Opening｜9/1 Sat. 15:00 15:00 Forum｜9/1 Sat. 16:00 15:30 Guest｜Chen Shiau-Peng

Exhibition Statement／Yuya Suzuki Recent interests of my making are the urban environments and the potential “cracks” that exist in the environment. The word “cracks” used here means things and situations deviated from original functions of the cities and conventional definition in the reality with having hollow structures; it’s like unconscious elements in the cities. And I continue my makings while going across various cities with different historical and cultural backgrounds. Thus I manage to engage in universal/potential layers in this real world. I copy and record those elements of cracks and unconsciousness in the cities mainly through the process of drawing. Drawing is an ideal method during movement. It can immediately capture the constantly changing world and potential elements in the reality. Through the process of movement and drawing, accumulation of images drawn from the real world becomes another viewpoint of the urban environment and the real world; it creates space for recognition and interpretation about the reality. As such, art making become one of the methods to re-perceive the reality for me. This exhibition “archegraph Study_Tainan” is based on research of urban environment in Tainan city since 2017. Tainan is the fascinating city for me as a Japanese. Because of the historical background, there are not only a lot of cultural continuities with Japan in the city, but also subtle but definitive differences. Walking through the streets of Taiwan makes me feel like I got lost in the parallel world somewhere. Parallel world is just like a mirror image; in other words, it is the relation between the original scene and the simulation. When I go back to Japan from Taiwan, I often feel like waking up from dreams, and it becomes obscure if it’s a dream or the reality. Of course both are the reality. However, my Japanese life seemed like a dream when I stayed in Taiwan. I guess such situations usually happen when a person is crossing various borders, and most people may have similar experiences. It may apply to the place in reality, the place far away, the place that people never go, the place people have once seen in dreams, and the place only existing in the memories. And, the place in reality and the imaginary place are often reversed in our consciousness. From that view, it can be said that these installation works are imagined place made by fragments of real places. Those fragmental images in this work are made by fragments of the real urban landscape in Tainan; these elements are usually seen by Tainan’s people unconsciously. I would say such elements of unconsciousness are kind of cracks in the city. Basing on those elements, I make one installation work as one fictional space where hover on the integration between memory, reality, and unconscious.

About Yuya Suzuki／ 1983 Born in Fukushima, Japan, now lives and works in Sapporo in Japan. // Education // 2003 - 2007 Nihon University collage of Art (B.A), Japan // Selected Solo Exhibitions // 2017 Remaking Ghosts, Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan, Taiwan 2017 archegraph study_Seoul, salon cojica, Sapporo, Japan // Selected Group Exhibitions // 2017 Sapporo international Art festival 2017 – guest house project, Sapporo, Japan 2017 Nanji 11th Season 1 Group Exhibition, SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea 2016 Sapporo Art Stage 2016, Sapporo Station Underground Passage CHI, KA HO, Sapporo, Japan Organizer: Absolute Space for the Arts Sponsor: National Culture and Arts Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City

See final presentation of video workshop by Yuya Suzuki