MEKURUMEKU

MEKURUMEKU

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Mekuru: to tear or pull something apart to reveal what is underneath.
Mekurumeku: to be dazzled, be dizzy, or to be fascinated, losing one’s reason.

^{[from Sanseido Super Daijirin dictionary]}
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“MEKURUMEKU” is a contraction of two concepts, ‘Mekurumeku’, a word which
imagines a sense of uncertainty or perhaps a physical sense of awe, and
another phrase, ‘Mekuru-Mekuru’, which evokes a scene in which layers are
peeled back over and over again, revealing new truths or information.
This exhibition begins with “Japanese Commuter Train”, a work that uses as its
subject one of the most familiar experiences of everyday life. In the following
installation, “Haunted House”, the viewer glimpses other people’s lives from a
distance, and it disrupts the viewer’s sense of scale of the houses and people
on the screen. From there, the viewer encounters “dolefullhouse”, a work which
creates a dynamic contrast in scale to one’s own body. While these three
installations already suggest a kind of layering to the structure of the show, to
reinforce this idea, the rest of exhibition will be created to visualize
MEKURUMEKU, which imagines a sense of uncertainty or perhaps a physical
sense of awe, and mekuru meku ru, which evokes a scene in which layers
are continuously peeled back, revealing new truths or information.