Video: Minor Railroad Symphony: Shadows on the Wall in Ryota Kuwakubo's Video
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Japanese Ryotu Kuwakubo has been interested in the topic of man in the age of technological progress for more than 20 years. The artist's latest installation, The Tenth Sentiment, which was recently shown in Tokyo, is an essay about a journey in a night carriage. In the video, you can hear the clatter of the train wheels, and the shadows on the wall depict everything that can be seen outside the window during the trip. The effect of the presence is guaranteed.
There is a suitcase mood, and there is a train mood. It comes when the neighbors in the carriage have stopped snooping back and forth, parents are trying to calm down the children, and even the noisy company from the last compartment has moved on to philosophical conversations about the phenomenon of respect. It is dark and incomprehensible outside the window.
God knows where you are actually being taken, to what a surreal world. A dreary and strange landscape sweeps past behind the muddy glass. No, this is not the sun of the tropics or Rio de Janeiro! Continuous wise night with eternal music - the Great Railway Symphony.
Such a mood is created in people contemplating Ryota Kuwakubo's video (Ryota Kuwakubo). The main characters of the Japanese installation master are shadows on the wall. A toy train rides through a darkened room, illuminating its path with a flashlight. First, we see people at the station, then urban landscapes begin, power lines, a nuclear power plant, a tunnel (it’s dark, even if you gouge your eyes out), a steppe and a steppe with barbed wire …
The little things on the floor come to life under the eye of a flashlight, grow many times over and turn into shadows on the wall and ceiling, and then shrink again, shrink and jump back into the darkness. Through the efforts of the Japanese author, at times, a complete illusion is created that you are riding a train and looking at the landscape outside the window.
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