Mitsuo MARUHASHI is an artist who was born in Kyoto in 1982 and is based in Hiroshima. Based on the theme of vision and perception, the artist evokes our daily action of recognize things, questioning the nebulousness of our recognition with the keyword of “perception comes from experiences.” His investigation and expression are realized mainly with sculptures and other media such as installations and movies without restriction of any single medium.
In Statues and Rods, one of his series or works, Maruhashi starts from the ideas regarding the characteristics of sculptures such as “Solid Closure*1” of cubic spaces or “Compactness*2” to evoke our awareness toward “fullness,” an impression which “things” will bring, trying to unframe it through installations. In Window Washing, a series of video works, the artist projects the movie of washing windows continuously, making us conscious of the boundary between the world inside the movie and our real world. Another series Images & Characters, in which letters of words are put directly on the things indicated by these words, brings strange but pleasant confusion by a slight confrontation of images and characters inside our recognition. In these ways, Maruhashi has consistently experimented pleasantly on the deviation from our usual visual experiences. The artist also pays attention to our change of life and perception; In a participatory project Window Washing Somewhere exhibited at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, the artist presented a new way of interaction between artworks and viewers under the influences of COVID-19 by expanding the artwork to the devices of viewers such as smartphones and laptops.
Works
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Titleどこかの窓洗い ※ 参加型作品Sizeサイズ可変Year2021Mediumビデオ（約2分30秒） -
Title窓洗い（２）Sizeサイズ可変Year2018Mediumモニタ、映像、他 -
Titleやわらかくて、とじている何かSize50 × 90 × 6cmYear2017Medium布、綿 -
TitleStatues and Rods （像と棒）Size11×40×10cmYear2017Mediumオブジェ -
TitleStatues and Rods （像と棒）Sizeサイズ可変Year2019Medium石膏像、棒、机 -
TitleStatues and Rods （像と棒）Size可変Year2019Medium石膏像、オブジェ、棒、机 他
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Titleどこかの窓洗い ※ 参加型作品Sizeサイズ可変Year2021Mediumビデオ（約2分30秒）
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Title窓洗い（２）Sizeサイズ可変Year2018Mediumモニタ、映像、他
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Titleやわらかくて、とじている何かSize50 × 90 × 6cmYear2017Medium布、綿
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TitleStatues and Rods （像と棒）Size11×40×10cmYear2017Mediumオブジェ
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TitleStatues and Rods （像と棒）Sizeサイズ可変Year2019Medium石膏像、棒、机
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TitleStatues and Rods （像と棒）Size可変Year2019Medium石膏像、オブジェ、棒、机 他
