Methods of progressing beyond a situation that you don't really understand and can't really see: distortion; transparency; severing connections that once seemed eternal; connecting with a separate, parallel eternity.
Teppei KANEUJI
ShugoArts is pleased to present a solo exhibition for Teppei Kaneuji, Recent Works: "Post-Something."
Kaneuji's practice can be summarized as an attempt to dismantle existing objects (plastic products, timber, etc.), and then reassemble them in new ways, thus bestowing new meanings and new functions on them. One way he does this is to pile such objects on top of each other and then cover them with a binding white resin that transforms them into a continuous, single mass. Alternatively, he assembles objects in accordance with rules that he postulates (that the objects be "transparent" or "bone-like," for example) and then combines them into something new.
As the scope of his practice develops and the pace of his work accelerates, Kaneuji is casting his eyes further afield and thus involving more and more things and even phenomena in these work.
Kaneuji's photographic work, titled N.H.K. (New Caledonia.Helsinki.Kyoto), was made in 2001, when the artist was living in Kyoto. Of it, he explains that he managed to "photograph a southern isle and the snow country at the same time". The image, which was taken of a late-night NHK television broadcast, shows the moment that the screen changed from video images of a South Pacific island to those of the snow country of Finland. The NHK logo is also visible. The image brings together two elements of reality in a way that would normally be inconceivable.
In this way, Kaneuji presents a vision of reality as the sum total of countless component elements, which can be disconnected, reconnected or interchanged in any way. To catch a glimpse of this vision is to get a sense of own everyday reality starting to come apart at the seams.
The exhibition also includes a three-dimensional work that Kaneuji says is a "model of space, with neither scale nor function" and a work of video. We hope you will visit the exhibition and consider covering it in your
