TAKATANI Shiro, Toposcan/Ireland 2013, 2013 / Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum［related image］ 

As an active member of leading Japanese artist group Dumb Type, Takatani Shiro has delivered performances and installation works using a wide range of media forms while pursuing his own unique methods of expression. As he continually attempts new experiments involving art and technology, his work has attracted notice worldwide for its beauty as well as its radical ideas. A Tokyo version of his Toposcan/Ireland 2013, which is currently in the collection of the the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, has been commissioned as a new work, a first trial, and will be exhibited at the Maison franco-japonaise gallery as part of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2020.

　As the title suggests, “Toposcan” incorporates the process of scanning scenes from a set location to question the meaning of vision and time. As scenes captured with a horizontally panning camera are displayed across eight linked monitors, single-pixel-width portions of the video image, ahead of the direction of panning, are stretched into lines that suggest the weaving of textiles and displayed as stripes featuring only color extraction. In the final section of the moving video imagery, then, vertical pixels change into still images one by one, so that the time of each single-pixel line is interwoven into the resulting panoramic image. The work produces a mode of time that exists for scenes in a way that transcends human spatial perception.

Date: 2020.2.7 Fri. – 2.23 Sun.［Closed 10 Mon., 17 Mon.］

10:00–20:00 (Closes at 18:00 on the final day)

Venue: Gallery of the Maison franco-japonaise

Admission: Free