Naoya Hatakeyama "Slow Glass"

Takahashi Collection Kagurazaka

Finished

Artists

Naoya Hatakeyama

The exhibition title "Slow Glass" is derived from a science fiction novel by Bob Shaw, "Other Days, Other Eyes." Artist Naoya Hatakeyama was inspired by a fictional substance called "slow glass" which "slows down the speed of light," and came to produce these works based on the concept.

Slow glass is a special kind of glass which only shows the past. For example, in the novel, a sheet of slow glass that framed a beautiful landscape in the countryside gets re-installed in a window of a house in a big dirty city. In another scene, a sheet of slow glass is used as a evidence from a crime scene. Unforgettable memories from the past inevitably interrupt the present. Hatakeyama finds this concept of slow glass very similar to what actually happens in today's media society. He points out how accumulated memories bring us anxiety, and how the light from the past shows everything relentlessly and cruelly.

In this exhibition, color photographs captured through a rain-drop dappled sheet of glass are on display.

Schedule

Oct 13 (Sat) 2007-Nov 24 (Sat) 2007