I can't touch you because the letters are too beautiful. (Tokyo ver.)
View of public working in progress : Photo by Toshiki Koike
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Main Gallery Area Artist
WA
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I can't touch you because the letters are too beautiful. (Sendai ver.)
Installation View
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I can't touch you because the letters are too beautiful. (Coordinate diagram)
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Artist Information
Ari Ookubo
1974 Born in Tokyo
2001 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London Institute
2015 “Criterium 90 -Ghosts in the Art Gallery-” Contemporary Art Gallery, ART TOWER MITO (Ibaraki,Japan)
2015 “In Our Time: Art in Post-industrial Japan” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa,Japan)
2017 “Railroad Siding 2017” Former school meal service center (the second) of Tokorozawa municipal (Saitama,Japan)
2018 “White Cube is Emptiness” Galleria Finarte (Aichi,Japan)
2018 “I'm the Creator of This World, You're One of the Materials Existing in the Univers” Sprout Curation (Tokyo,Japan)
For Love Letter series,The time of reaching to you is extended to nearly eternal through hesitation and errors, also troubles, labors and movements.And, the purpose may be lost or forgotten.
[Comment by Selector]
Combining objects, photos, replicas of natural materials, antiques and the like, Okubo creates installations that seem to move through time and space. In the course of that creation she weaves a story, the elements of which consist of the things she has experienced. By reading a story, one can hit upon the memories of the characters’ quests, but when Okubo performs a reading of the story herself, the creator, work, and story are further broken down into multiple layers, and the boundaries between reality and illusion become more and more ambiguous. In the relationship of the work and the creator mingling together, even the viewers could be influencing the space with their existence.