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Installation view at “Poly” (2020), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Installation view at “Poly” (2020), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Installation view at “Poly” (2020), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Installation view at “Poly” (2020),
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kanazawa, Japan

Installation view at “Poly” (2020),
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kanazawa, Japan

Installation view at “Poly” (2020), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Installation view at “Inaccessibility” (2019), Contemporary Art Gallery Chika, Tokyo, Japan

Installation view at “Inaccessibility” (2019), Contemporary Art Gallery Chika, Tokyo, Japan

Detail of distance at “Inaccessibility” (2019), Contemporary Art Gallery Chika, Tokyo, Japan

Installation view at “Shadows Cast Shadows -Domain of Art 20” (2018), Plaza North, Saitama, Japan

Installation view at “Shadows Cast Shadows -Domain of Art 20” (2018), Plaza North, Saitama, Japan

Detail of distance at “Shadows Cast Shadows -Domain of Art 20” (2018), Plaza North, Saitama, Japan

Detail of distance at “Shadows Cast Shadows -Domain of Art 20” (2018), Plaza North, Saitama, Japan

Detail of distance at “Shadows Cast Shadows -Domain of Art 20” (2018), Plaza North, Saitama, Japan

Installation view at “The Strange Objects” (2017), Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, South Korea

distance no.5, 2017 at “The Strange Objects” (2017), Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, South Korea

Detail of distance no.5 at “The Strange Objects” (2017), Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, South Korea

Detail of distance no.5 at “The Strange Objects” (2017), Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, South Korea

distance no.3, 2017 at “The Strange Objects” (2017), Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, South Korea

Detail of distance no.3 at “The Strange Objects” (2017), Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, South Korea

Detail of distance no.3 at “The Strange Objects” (2017), Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, South Korea

distance no.4, 2017 at “The Strange Objects” (2017), Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, South Korea

2016-
Moving image projected on Plexiglas, everyday items, LED light, lens, motor

The images of the inside of the room are physically projected on screens using the mechanism of camera obscura. In the room, there is an installation of kinetic sculptures consisting of everyday items and motors. The kinetic sculptures move clumsily and their motion makes the viewer sense them to exist as living creatures, even though the machines are inanimate objects. The objects are in fact there in front of them, but viewers, like prisoners of Plato’s Cave, can only see the objects as illusory video images. Anzai attempts to disrupt the way we unconsciously and passively perceive representation by creating a state where the object is suspended somewhere between reality and illusion.

カメラ・オブスクラの原理により、小部屋の中の様子が物理的にスクリーンへ投影されています。小部屋の中では、日用品を組み合わせた動く彫刻のインスタレーションが展開されています。即興的に制作される機械の動きは、不安定でぎこちなく、無生物で構成されているにも関わらず、時に生き物のような存在感を感じさせます。そこに何かが存在するにも関わらず、投影されたイリュージョンとしてしか対象を見ることができない、というモノとの関係は、感覚器官を通してしかモノと関わることができない、私たちの世界へのジレンマのようです。