Aekanaru Room: Rei Naito and Hikaru Tachi
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- TV Man Union Inc.
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY27 Term I Creation Grant [Single-Year Grant Program]
Business Overview
Artist Naito Rei has produced works that bring quiet wonder to those who experience them. His representative work, “Matagata ” (Toshima Museum of Art), is a space like a large organism that accepts all the people and beings in it. Director Nakamura Yuko came across "Matagata" and was strongly attracted to the power of the scene. She asked Naito for interviews and continued filming for two years. However, "When you're taken, you lose what you make." In the middle of the interview, Naito refuses to take pictures. At one point the director almost gave up on filming, but he resolved to approach the question of "Is being alive a blessing in itself?" which is the essence of Naito's art, without pointing a camera at him. And as if to fill in Naito's "absence," he meets five women .... Gathering in the "mother mold," they exchange their feelings of hurt and their words about life and death. The inner necessity of the director himself, who had to shoot the “mother model, ” and the sensitivity of the women eventually coincide, and they are released into a big time like prayer.
- Period of Activity / Project
- September 2015
- Venues
- Shibuya Theater Image Forum (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) and others
Profile
[TV Man Union]
Established in 1970. It was the first independent television production company in Japan. He has won many awards for introducing a new direction theory to television. The company received the Kan Kikuchi Award (2005) and the Mainichi Art Award (2013).
Rei NAITO ... Selected to represent Japan at the 1997 Venice Biennale. He received the Art Award from the Asahi Breweries Arts and Culture Foundation. One of Japan's leading contemporary artists.
Yuko Nakamura ... Nominated for Best Art at the International Emmy Award for "The Memory of the Beginning, Hiroshi Sugimoto"