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virtual jewelity

short movie
flower of a cell / 細胞の花
plate of brass
inspired by MIZUKI’s drawing f
rom Group session of What's the color of your name?

 

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from Group session of Recognize the invisible distances

 

artwork by Natsue

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I thought there was no "truth" in virtual.

The common theme of 2020 that I faced was "distance”,
that is the theme of this work, the chaos between the virtual and the real world.
When people disappeared from the streets and moved their home to the Internet.
I was also under the restriction of going out in Italy.
I watched people eating dinner on youtube and ate dinner with them.
I would post videos of myself playing ping-pong on social media so that my friends in Japan would not worry about me.
When it was dark outside, I slept all day, and when the sun came out, I had sun bathing.

Photos, videos, phone calls,
and communication with people became something that could only be touched through by lines.
We met PUKAPUKA in virtual, while we made artworks together and talked a lot.
After that,
we no longer felt the distance that should have existed between us.
Even though the way we interacted with people had changed,
I learned that not everything in the virtual world was suspect,
and that there was a new kind of communication and "truth" relationship.

During the Skype call with PUKAPUKA,
when I couldn't hear the voice or the screen stopped,
when I turn off Skype and the silence comes back properly,
there were moments when I was confused about what was real and what was not.

Where did we exist, in time, in space, in place?

Our works that we showed each other in the virtual world would have existed vividly and colorfully
in each place, but they never left the screen.

In this work, we have made the communication that existed in the virtual world of 2020
into a reality that we can hold in our hands.

By giving form to their work that spills over between the real and the virtual, that is,
by sublimating the work from the "distance" group session from two-dimensional to three-dimensional,
I wanted to confirm the truth of our little world lived in the year 2020.


 


 

肌が触れ合う距離にしか“本当”は無いのだと思っていた。
 

2020年に向き合った私のdistance、
それが今作品のテーマである仮想と現実の狭間の混沌だ。
街から人が消え、人々が住処をインターネット上に移した頃、
私もイタリアで外出制限下にあった。
youtubeでご飯を食べている人を見ながら一緒にご飯を食べたり
日本の友達が心配しないようSNSに卓球をしている動画を上げたり
外が暗い日は1日中寝て、太陽が出れば日向ぼっこをした。

写真や動画、電話、
人とのコミュニケーションは回線を通じてしか触れられないものになった。
ヴァーチャルで出会ったPUKAPUKAという居場所で

私たちは一緒に作品を作ったりたくさんの話をし、
いつしかその間にあるはずのdistanceを感じなくなっていた。
ヴァーチャルの世界に本当の関わりがあるとは知らなかったけれど、
その状況下では唯一の“本当”だった。

テレビ電話中に声が聞こえなくなったり画面が止まったりする時、
通話を切って、プチンと静けさがきちんと戻ってくる時、
何が現実なのか、何が本当なのかごちゃ混ぜになる瞬間があった。

時間なのか、空間なのか、場所なのか、どこに私たちは存在したんだろう。

 

ヴァーチャル上で見せ合った私たちの作品は、確かにそれぞれの場所で
生き生きと色鮮やかに存在していたはずだけれど、画面から抜け出ることはなかった。
この作品ではこの2020年の仮想世界に存在したコミュニケーションを手にとれる現実にした。

現実と仮想の間にこぼれ落ちる彼らの作品を形にすること、
つまり「distance」のグループセッションでの作品を、平面から立体へと昇華させることで、
2020年に生きた私たちの小さな世界を“本当だった”と確かめたかったのだ。

short movie

castle / 城
plate of brass,plate of copper
inspired by FUKI’s drawing f
rom Group session of
Re-draw Re-world

virtual jewelity
motif / member’s drawing from Group session

material /rod of brass, plate of brass, rod of copper, plate of copper
technic / metal carving
2021
NATSUE  ASAI

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