Overlapping Traces

営業中のホテルで行われる展覧会に参加した。毎日、人が入れ替わり利用するホテルという特異な場での展示ということから、これまでに滞在したであろう様々な人の様々な服の、様々な置き方・脱ぎ捨て方をここで同時に見てみたいと思った。違った服の違った置き方の重なりの集合体は、その部屋がつくり出したひとつの新たな服と言える。また、部屋と隣接した屋上には、家具をミニチュアで再現し、行為の痕跡として様々な人の脱ぎ方のみを抽出したパフォーマンスを行った。モニターで映像を見るように、部屋の窓を通してその様子を鑑賞することができる。

This work was part of an exhibition held in a hotel. Taking a cue from the highly particular nature of the venue as a place where new people come and go every day, I wanted to witness the various ways in which the clothes of the different people who have stayed at the hotel to date were taken off and put down. The assemblage of different clothes placed in different ways could be regarded as a new kind of outfit created by the room in the hotel. On the rooftop next to the room, a performance was held with reproductions of the furniture in miniature and distilling the ways in which different people take off their clothes as vestiges of their actions. Visitors could watch the performance through the window of the room, as if viewing footage on a screen.