A new series that launches the FELT SENSE, a bodily sensation that is difficult to put into words.
■Exhibition overview Exhibition name: Onomi “FELT SENSE”
Date: November 12, 2024 (Tuesday) – November 30, 2024 (Saturday)
*The opening reception will be held on Tuesday, November 12th from 17:30 to 19:00 with the artist present. (The artist will talk for the first 30 minutes.) We look forward to seeing you there.
Opening hours: 11:00-19:00 (until 17:00 on Saturdays)
Closed: Sundays, Mondays, and public holidays Venue: ART FOR THOUGHT
Exhibition details: https://artforthought.jp/blogs/upcoming-exhibitions/Onoumi-felt-sense
■Exhibition Contents
ART FOR THOUGHT will be holding the exhibition "FELT SENSE" by Kai Ono from November 12th to 30th.
This work, made of blending colors and felt stapled together, evokes the ambiguity and expansiveness of mind and body, and is a new series that launches a bodily sensation (FELT SENSE) that is difficult to put into words.
How can we perceive and reweave our humanity?
[Ono Umi Profile]
<Brief biography>
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1995
2020 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture
2022 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Sculpture
<Major exhibition history/Other>
July 2022 “CORE Part8” tagboat
August 2022 Solo Exhibition "Prism-Reimport" Courtyard Hiroo
August 2022 Group Exhibition "GALLERY SCENA Pre OPEN Exhibition" GALLERY SCENA
October 2022 Group exhibition "Matsusaka Culture Street" Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture
October 2022 Group exhibition "POND2022" Shibuya Parco
February 2023 Group Exhibition "CURVE" tagboat new gallery Kakiotoshi Exhibition
March 2023: Appeared on Fuji TV's "Core"
June 2023: Choreography Montage: Stage design and performance for the play "Titus Andronicus"
October 2023: Appearance on Nippon TV's "Art house"
November 2023 Solo exhibition “Tom Boy” tagboat
December 2023 "SHIBUYA STYLE Vol.17" Seibu Shibuya
July 2024 Suidobata Sculpture Department Staff Exhibition "momentum" B-gallery
The “monster” appears again.
Kai Ono has been creating the existence of perception in a three-dimensional way. In the "Prism" series, he constructs the invisible and the perceptual in a sculptural way, and by stringing rainbow-colored threads around it, he expresses the variety of perception and the infinity of the construction (when viewing the work, we have the illusion of an expansion of the work like a moire phenomenon), as well as fraying and transience, and manifests them as a holistic "perception."
In the "FELT SENSE" series of this exhibition, Ono aims to "establish perception" as a common point with "Prism", while attempting to approach the coexistence of plurality and expandability, and the physicality of flesh and blood. Felt with multiple colors smudged and stapler that bluntly holds it in place. The ambiguity of boundaries and expandability coexist here, reminding us of the way we live in modern times, and while containing multiple ambiguous individuals (we use multiple characters depending on the scene, and feel exhausted and confused by this), we are also attempting to expand our bodies as symbolized by the IoB (Internet of Bodies). In fact, "FELT SENSE" refers to "physical sensations that are difficult to put into words" in the field of psychology, and it can be seen that Ono, who has established invisible perception, is focusing his interest on the body as a perceptual subject.
The use of felt in the stapler also reminds us of the "monster" in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," whose shape is distorted and held together by human technology, and whose flesh and blood pulsate inside (in fact, although this is a two-dimensional work, it is undulating, evoking the body behind the felt). Critic Hiroki Yamamoto, in his book "Art in the Post-Anthropocene," argues that "we will be required to carve new forms of 'wildness' for the future. [p.81]" and advocates the need for re-enchantment of the world. For us human beings, paying attention to our ambiguous and invisible senses (FELT SENSE), in addition to our organ-based senses, can be said to be an act of grabbing our humanity in the mist (wildness) in order to live better. In the aforementioned "Frankenstein," the "monster" was never given a name and was unable to achieve his humanity. How does Ono intend to establish the bodily sensation of "FELT SENSE" as a human perception? Or does the aura of this ambiguous and difficult-to-describe "monster" fail to achieve a sense of humanity? The reader reaches the final page of the novel without being told whether the "monster" is alive or dead.
Curated by Keiichiro Tao
■ART FOR THOUGHT
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From the press release of AFT Co., Ltd.
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