DATSUEBA / Dress-Up House

この世とあの世を分かつ三途の川のほとりで、亡者の服を剥ぎとると伝えられてきた妖怪「奪衣婆」と、服を脱いで心身を浄める場に向かう「脱衣場」から、DATSUEBAは着想された。西尾のアトリエであり研究室でもあるDATSUEBAは、子どもから年配の方まで、装いやアート、生活文化に関心のある誰もが、日常の「当たり前」を脱ぎさり、新しい気持ちでものごとを始められるような場所として、2022年の一年間、奈良のまちなかで運営された。その後も、渋谷や六本木で期間限定のDATSUEBAが開かれている。DATSUEBAとコンセプトを共有する「着がえる家」は、個展のタイトルとしてしばしば用いられており、会場に合わせたサイトスペシフィックな展示として、西尾の過去作品を実際に試着し、他の参加者と交流できる場を提供している。

DATSUEBA takes inspiration from a changing room (in Japanese, datsuiba) where you remove your clothes on your way to the place where you cleanse your mind and soul, and from the eponymous supernatural creature whose name literally means “old woman who strips clothes,” and who is said to wait by the Sanzu, the river separating the worlds of the living and the dead, ready to take off the clothing of the deceased as their cross. DATSUEBA was both Yoshinari Nishio’s studio and a laboratory, opened in Nara in 2022 for a year as a place where anyone, young and old, with an interest in clothes, art, and ways of living can discard the everyday and turn over a new leaf. DATSUEBA has subsequently reopened in Shibuya and Roppongi, Tokyo, for limited periods. Sharing the same concept as DATSUEBA, Dress-Up House frequently takes the guise of a solo exhibition and features site-specific works made to match the venue. People are able to try on Nishio’s past creations and interact with other participants.

DATSUEBA
Artist: Yoshinari Nishio
Space design: Yagyug Douguten
Installer: Kazuhiro Takahashi (KUSUNOKI WORKS)
VI: Ryoko Nagaoka
Project maneger: Sakiko Nishio
In collaboration with Tamaki Uchida, Naoki Ebisuya, Moyumi Kakihara, Takahiro Shimada, Takami Sugiyama, Megumi Terukina, Naohiro Matsumoto, Sho Yasuda, Suseri Yoshida

Dress-Up House Executive Committee

Director: Yumi Shishido

Artist: Yoshinari Nishio

Coordinator: Kaori Iwama

In collaboration with Yoshiya Ebihara