Utsuwa

Installation on Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art facades and elevator | installation executed for my personnal exhibition « Horizons »

Utsuwa (Haji Pottery) : pigments, acrylic binding and aluminum sheets on glass and concrete walls, various dimensions, 2021
bâtiment réhabilité par l'architecte Jun Aoki

Reveal the natural forces, the lava flows from the eruption of the Aïra volcano, the floods of the Shirakawa River...
From documents of archaeological excavations on the site, I identified the water which crossed the space of the Triangle from the northeast to the southwest. At the edge of an always humid zone, at the end of the Yayoi and the beginning of Kofun periods, its border marked the limit of fertile land and dwellings: nature and humanity.

The Yayoi era is the end of a society, where the priestess Himiko who united a country, disappears in favor of a male-dominated system.

In my installation, the drawing of a chalice from the Yayoi period is installed on the facades of the Triangle. Inside, rolls of fabric bring out forms from other territories, Etruscan and Greek from a similar period, in line with the water.

© Mari Minato 2021 - saif, Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, | photo : ©Fumitaka Miyoshi