Video: Under the Water - garbage installations dedicated to the tsunami in Japan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Not even a year has passed since the series of large earthquakes and the subsequent tsunami that Japan suffered in March 2011. And so far it is too early to speak fully about the damage to Mankind and to nature that have been inhabited by these cataclysms. Here comes the Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata is already trying to comprehend these processes through a series garbage installations Under the Water.
There are many artists in the world who create works from the debris they found on the banks of water bodies. Examples include the work of the Americans, Mark Olivier and Angela Pozzi. So the Japanese Tadashi Kawamata has created a series of installations from coastal debris. Moreover, from such, the cause of which is the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.
According to rough estimates, in those tragic days for the Land of the Rising Sun, the sea took with it more than 20 million garbage and waste. Echoes of this event can be found in various parts of the Pacific Ocean, even the most remote from Japan.
For example, all the materials that Tadashi Kawamata uses in his work, he collects on the coast of the Hawaiian Islands, which are five thousand kilometers from Japan.
To create installations in the Under the Water series, Kawamata collects debris and stacks various structures out of it. For example, he hangs it from the ceiling or walls, creates outdoor awnings from it, etc.
Moreover, these works always have a grid structure, which, according to Tadashi Kawamata, symbolizes a cage, a trap, into which Mankind has fallen due to uncontrolled urbanism.
Tadashi Kawamata's installations from the Under the Water series will be on display at the Parisian Kamel Mennour Gallery until early February this year.
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