Duo Show by Two Deaf Artists
Coordinator：Kentaro Chiba

February12th - February 24th
11:00-20:00
Opening Reception : February 17th 17:00-
Close:February 19th

Object / Image / Noise

You will see Objects and Images, but which came first, Objects or Images. Without classifying things into two categories, material and immaterial but instead by mixing everything up, Creative Action can begin through experience of visual sensation. The scenery that the Lumie`re brothers watched through the finder lens, was not the same as the projected image on the screen although both can be considered as the same motion. The images on the screen are only superficial cutups and just moves as visual representation. Embracing the gaps and mysteries, the film without a sound track shot by the Lumie`re brothers may wander back and forth between Objects and Images because it is silent. If one can catch the subtle and obscure relation between Objects and Images purely by the physical sense that mainly consists of visual sensation, what kind of world will emerge there? Are Objects and Images covering each other? Or they are colliding ceaselessly? Noise is always generated on the boundary between different objects. This exhibition is the collaboration of two artists but each artist’s work will be deconstructed in the area between Objects and Images. Something different unknown with Noise will come from another dimension before each artist’s personality clearly appears. However, it is still hard for us to know whether the noise is generated by unusual contact of materials or comes from the chaotic images. (Joji Sato)

Joji Sato
born:1972
1997: BA, Musashino Art University. Since then, Sato is creating paintings that are replaced images consisting of multi-layered photos taken by himself and found in internet.
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works

Hiroyuki Kozu
born:1970
2000: PHD. Tokyo Art University Under the theme of ‘Boundary’ (「境域」kyouiki ), he continually creates works in different mediums, e.g. two dimensional, three dimensional and Installation. He is also well-known as a Butoh Dancer, ‘DAKE’.
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Installation

Noise / Boundary

Both Joji Sato and Yukihiro Kozu, the artists of this duo show, might not think themselves as static existences but rather as changeable phenomena. They may think that ephemerality in existence is not helpless and unreliable like bubbles on flowing water. However, both they seem to form and materialize their existences in ceaseless action of projecting themselves forward with stable willpower. For Joji Sato, expressing himself in art is nothing but intentionally composing heterogeneous factors, additionally through generating noise, which is harsh and materialistic sound from the boundary of different things. On the other hand, Hiroyuki Kozu is trying to stand and keep balance on two different territories at the same time and make further advances on the line, through his life long theme of ‘the boundary area’. It is his life work and risky somehow because it forces tensions to make a balance. His attitude is always the same when he dances as a famous Butoh Dancer, known as ‘DAKEI’ . Therefore the theme of this exhibition is personally crucial but universal at the same time. It will be a Metacognitive dialogue about art because it is reviewing of the relationship between art and existence. in this exhibition, the venue becomes an aggressive lab where the themes of 'boundary area' and 'noise' that they have pursued individually will be overlapped and fed back. Then ‘the boundary area' will expand and a new 'noise' will be generated. As the co-ordinator of this exhibition, I hope that the new phases of ‘the boundary area' and 'noise', which no hearings can expect will emerge on the horizon of the new world where beyond differences between hearings and deaf, every artist can discuss and communicate freely.

Kentaro Chiba

Art Lab Akiba www.art-lab.jp