_{The situation on their desks is kept as it is.}Site-specific Intervention
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“I line up slippers at the entrance and gather trash cans from all over the room. I leave the mail from the mailbox on their desks, wash the cups I collected, and clean them and vacuum them. Go to the convenience store at a good stopping point. I pick up the scraps of paper on the floor and make coffee.

I always pat the waters of the pool and jump in as soon as the waves start up.”

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Photo credits: Tomoyuki Sakuyama

Contributing the group exhibition ”Pool Ladder Not Painted Completely White “

“Pool Ladder Not Painted Completely White” | 真っ白に塗りきれていないプールの梯子

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At UMMM, the venue for the exhibition, a good mood flows, good times for ideas flow, many smiles are born, and a new wave of design and expression happens. UMMM, which comes out on our mouths unintentionally while worrying with colleagues, has become the name of the company. "We want to be with you in your problems and discoveries. We want to find ideas together." This statement is reflected in this space and in this historic building. It could be that the good mood is flowing and good waves are being created because of the pool ladder installed on the wall of UMMM. Having this ladder may make it feel like being in the water of a swimming pool, allowing us to concentrate on racing for time, finishing, jumping in, performing techniques, and artistic expression. However, if looking closely at this pool ladder, it is not completely white and the material underneath can be seen through it. If wondering why the pool ladder is in such a place, wondering why the pool ladder is not painted over, and confirming that there is not a swimming pool. While imagining a swimming pool and confirming that there is no swimming pool, while confirming that there is the pool ladder not painted completely white, we would like to compete while worrying and discovering during the three days of making time, and continue to mutter UMMM while trying to find the goals.

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展覧会の会場となるUMMMにはいいムードが流れ、アイデアを生むいい時間が流れ、たくさんの笑顔がうまれ、デザインや表現の新しい波を起こしている。みんなと悩みながら思わずそれぞれの口から出るUMMMが社名となり、「悩みも発見も側で一緒にしたい。アイデアを一緒に見つけたい。」という会社の思いが、この空間、そしてこの歴史ある建物を語っている。いいムードが流れ、波を起こしているのは、UMMMの壁にプールの梯子が設置されているからなのかもしれない。この梯子があることで、プールの水の中のような感覚となり、タイムを競うこと、ゴールすること、飛び込むこと、技を披露すること、芸術的な表現をすることに集中できるのかもしれない。しかし、このプールの梯子をよく見ると、真っ白くなっておらず下の素材が透けて見える。プールの梯子がなぜこんなところにあるのかが気になると、塗りきれていないことも気になり、ここがプールではないことを確認してしまうかもしれない。プールを想像をしながらもプールはないことを確認しつつ、真っ白に塗りきれていないプールの梯子があることを確認しつつ、3日間の制作タイムの中で悩み発見しながら競い、ゴールを目指しながらUMMMと呟き続けたい。

Artists:
荒木桃香 ARAKI Momoka
家成俊勝 IENARI Toshikatsu
北原和規 KITAHARA Kazuki
谷口あかりTANIGUCHI Akari
長嶺慶治郎 NAGAMINE Keijiro
中山和也 NAKAYAMA Kazuya
平井志歩 HIRAI Shiho
松井利夫 MATSUI Toshio
宮本真衣 MIYAMOTO Mai

Curation: NAKAYAMA Kazuya
Design, Photo: KITAHARA Kazuki
Coordination: ARAKI Momoka

August 23 – September 15, 2024
1PM – 7PM
(Open: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday each week)
※Entrance free

Opening party: August 22 18:30 –　
※No reservation required, Entrance free

Venue: UMMM Studio
Room H 2F Seiwa Tenant House 448 Kajii-cho Kamigyo-ku KYOTO 602-0841 JAPAN

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Exhibition Review Text :「水中のコーヒーを淹れきる時、大きく息を吸い込んで｜（まだ）真っ暗ではない展覧会を思い出す＃1」by Haruki Funakoshi (in Japanese)

Photo credits: Tomoyuki Sakuyama