MAKI UMEHARA
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Text: Maki Umehara, excerpt, "Knees and Arms"
The work explores the way that the object looks like as if it would have less weight and it was less gravity.
The yellow suggests that past memories become the color of light and seem diffuse. However the yellow transcends this association with the past as it is also precisely that shade of color favored by German Architecture. Such strong contrasts of color were taken up by Bruno Taut, who in turn, had been influenced by Japanese traditional architecture, and used them in his architecture in Berlin, Germany. At the same time moments of representation and the gaps in their interpretation from words and image indicate a new form of communicative space.
[Notes] This text was written as notes and had never stated on the exhibition's catalogue, etc. until 2024 that it was set on view to the general public on the website.