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
FY26 Term I Creation Grant [Single-Year Grant Program]
Business Overview
The artist Naito Rei has made us aware of subtle forms of existence that we cannot see unless we squint our eyes. She has mostly refused to have herself photographed. The story begins when a reporter asks Naito for an interview. Naito was born in Hiroshima. His first work on the theme of the atomic bombing was a space dedicated to the souls of the A-bomb victims, in which sculptures of people were placed close to the glass exposed to radiation. Interviewing by feeling your way .... However, Naito gradually began to feel uncomfortable being photographed by a camera. "When you're taken, you lose the ability to create." The interviewer shares Naito's theme of "Is our life a blessing in itself?" but decides to make a documentary without turning the camera on him. Meanwhile, five women, ranging in age from their teens to their seventies, are invited to visit Naito's masterpiece, the Toshima Museum of Art. The water in the mother form and the existence of the women overlap and resonate with each other, accepting the uncertainty of existence and the irrationality of living. What do they share and talk about in this place, which has been named the "mother model"? A view that touches the essence of life and the miracle of the world's existence appears there.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Scheduled for late March 2015
- Venues
- Planned to be shown at Tokyo art museums and single-movie theaters
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"