photo: NAKAMICHI Atsushi / Nacása & Partners
A Man is Diving in the Sea Water
| Artist | KOJIMA Hisaya |
|---|---|
| Year | 1995 |
| Material/ Technique | sea water, CO², figure, wineglass, telescope |
| Size/ Duration | H23 × W11 × D11cm |
| Copyright Notice | © KOJIMA Hisaya |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2003 |
| Description | Born in Aichi, Japan in 1957. Lives and works there. Kojima’s works include sculpture that incorporates the real world as a borrowed landscape, and installations where a pseudo-mirror, not existing physically, is created by making all the objects in a room symmetrical in relation to the center line of the room. Through such works, he tries to create worlds in which the realms of fiction and reality intersect. Kojima refers to the point where reality and fiction become one as the ‘critical point,’ and he continues to explore this idea through a variety of forms of expression. As the title "A Man is Diving in the Sea Water" suggests, when you look through the telescope provided you can see a man scuba diving in a diving suit. But when you look up again, you see that what you are in fact observing is a tiny figurine swimming inside a wine glass. The glass is in fact filled with seawater and the tiny gas bubbles coming from the diver’s mouth are actually carbon dioxide – the artist has thus introduced elements of reality into this fictional world. The work stimulates the viewers’ imaginations by leading them back and forth between the macro and micro worlds. With its presentation of a moment when reality and fiction become one, this is an example of Kojima’s “Critical Point” series. |
NOTES
This Collection Data page contains the works and materials in the collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, as of April 1, 2018.
Artists are listed alphabetically by artist’s surname.
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