かつての本のためのスクラップブック / Scrapbooks for Lost Books
Exhibition view
About the work -「人間という嘘」愛知淑徳大学 / “The Lie of Being Human” (Aichi Shukutoku University) (2024.3)
愛知淑徳大学の敷地内各所にて、学外で活動する美術作家と、美術・文芸・漫画等の創作活動をしている現役学生が、作品を共に展示し交流する展覧会「人間という嘘」に参加した。この展覧会で私は、学内の図書館にインスタレーションを展開し、
過去に制作した、古い本を解体し再構成した作品3点と、父の遺品の書籍に付属していたブックカバーや栞、本の宣伝カード、書店のレシートを図書館の空いた棚に配置した。
今は本来持っていた内容や意味が失われ、その一部の形だけが残っている存在としての「かつての本」を、現役で意味を伝える媒体として機能している本が並んでいる図書館に配置することで、物体としての本の意味を考察する作品。
また、これらの作品の素材は、1970年代から2000年代初頭の素材であるため、本というメディアの社会の中での位置付けや、書籍産業の変遷を読み取ることもできる。
I participated in the exhibition "The Lie of Being Human," held across various locations on the campus of Aichi Shukutoku University. This exhibition brought together artists working outside the university and current students engaged in creative practices such as fine art, literature, and manga, allowing them to exhibit their works together and interact.
For this exhibition, I developed an installation in the university library. I displayed three works I had previously created by dismantling and reconstructing old books, along with book covers, bookmarks, promotional cards, and bookstore receipts that had belonged to my father and were originally attached to his books. These materials were placed on empty shelves in the library.
By positioning these “former books”—objects that have lost their original content and meaning, leaving only fragments of their form—within a library where books still actively function as media that convey meaning, this work explores the significance of books as physical objects.
Furthermore, since the materials used in these works date from the 1970s to the early 2000s, they also allow viewers to trace the social positioning of books as a medium and the transformations of the publishing industry over time.