Yoichi Ochiai’s installation “Mirror Portal of Emergence” was presented at the Omotesando crossing. Using a method also seen in his pavilion “null²” at the Osaka Expo, its shimmering, reflective surfaces distorted the familiar intersection, merging with the city and projecting the very presence of the moment.
As the artist’s concept describes, the work is a “dream that trembles on the boundary between matter and image,” an apparatus that brings forth the “now.” With that vision in mind, even the streetscape and passersby of Omotesando seemed transformed, pressing in as a fluid and shifting landscape.
Although the work was created to embody motion, the photographs I captured with the GRIII preserved its vibrations, translating them into still images. ■
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落合陽一さんのインスタレーション「即今鏡門: Mirror Portal of Emergence」が表参道の交差点に設置されていたので行ってきました。大阪万博のパビリオン『null²』で展開された表現と響き合う手法で、光を反射し震わせる壁面が、いつもの交差点をゆがめ、表参道という歴史ある通りと重なり合いながら、まさに「いま」を映し出していました。
作者が記したコンセプトにあるように、作品は「物質と映像の境界に揺らぐ夢」であり、「即今」を顕現させる装置です。その思想を思い浮かべながら見ると、表参道の街並みや人々の姿までもが変容し、流動的な風景として迫ってきました。
本来は動きを伴う作品ですが、GRIIIで切り取った写真は、その振動を静止画として表現できました。■
All photos in this article were taken with a RICOH GR III and edited in Lightroom.
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Location: Omotesando, Shibuya, Tokyo
This map shows the approximate area where the photos were taken.
