読まれない本のためのスケッチブック / A Sketchbook Dedicated to Unread Books
Exhibition view
About the work -「イナイナイアート」茅野市民館 / “Inainai Art” Chino Cultural Complex（Chino City, Japan）(2020.3)
長野県茅野市にある文化施設 茅野市民館の各所に、かくれんぼをするように作品を紛れ込ませ、それを観覧車が見つけることができる展覧会「イナイナイアート」参加作品。この展覧会で私は、市民館の中にある図書館を展示場所に選び、そこに本の形をした作品を展示した。
この作品は、自宅にあった古い図鑑、父の遺品の書籍に付属していたブックカバーや栞や本の宣伝用カードなど、すでに読まれなくなった本やその付属品を素材とし、それを組み合わせて本の形に再構成したものである。
現在も様々な来館者に読まれ続けている本の中に、読まれなくなって久しくなった本を別の形で蘇らせ、配置した作品。
This work was created for Inainai Art, an exhibition in which artworks are hidden throughout the Chino Cultural Complex, a cultural facility in Chino City, Nagano Prefecture, like a game of hide-and-seek, and discovered by visitors.
For this exhibition, I chose the library inside the Cultural Complex as the exhibition site and installed book-shaped works there.
These works were made from materials such as old illustrated books from my home, book covers, bookmarks, and promotional cards that had been attached to books belonging to my late father—objects that were once read but have long since fallen out of use. By combining and reconstructing these materials, I re-formed them into the shape of books.
The work places these reborn “unread” books among books that continue to be actively read by visitors today, allowing them to reappear in a different form within the space of the library.