Pulp Physique
Photo by Atsushi Kumagai
Main Gallery Area Artist
Artist Information
Photo by Kai Maetani
Yuske Taninaka
1988 Born in Osaka
2014 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts M.F.A, Sculpture
2016-2017 “Chronicle, Chronicle!” Creative Center Osaka (Osaka,Japan)
2017 “The point in front is the point in front is not” Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto,Japan)
2017 “Impurity / immunity” Tokyo Arts and Space (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 “Festival der jungen Talente 2018” (Project: Noise Again, collaboration with BOF) Frankfruter Kunstein (Frankfrut am Main,Germany)
2018 “Scrolling, Scroll, Scrl” +DEDE (Berlin,Germany)
I think my sculptures consisting of unfinished and performative fragments as like our bodies. Bodies, no matter what human beings or other various lifeforms, are continuous organic system by symbiosis mechanism happening on internal and external space of its own with other species. There is no distinction to define what is a single entity in this idea, it relies on and also represents ecological system simultaneously. I accelerate the relationship between sculpture and body within this ecological dynamism as if the both are agencies of each others. My methodology is consistent to create continuous and potential relationships between my body and sculpture. Although there may not always be media-similarities such as independent statue, abstract sculpture with performance, and activated installation between the different projects, they are linked by the matter of subjectivity and objectivity in the ecological sense. By questioning of performance, it reveals our inherent vulnerabilities, and movement is metaphor for ever-seeking of mankind. On the other hand, sculptures are symbol of immortal body. It doesn’t lose anything ideally. Though I want to activate my sculpture and body in the ecological idea. Thus, there is no single immortality nor mortality, they are a part of circulation.
Selector
The executive director of Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS)/The artistic director of Vincom Center for Contemporary Art
[Comment by Selector]
Yusuke Taninaka (born in 1988, living in Berlin) is mainly known for sculpture and performance. In fact, what is sculptural and what is performative boils down to nothing more than a difference in the perception of time—or perhaps between them, it is not a discontinuity, but a gradation. A public sculpture in front of a station is exercising performatively every day, and a temporary performance contains the permanence in its one moment. In the end, the problem is only in resisting the process of entropy. But could it be that entropy is only set in motion by the act of resisting? Maybe art is driven only by reversing cause and result...Rather than the thought that people will probably die after all, the voice of Shusaku Arakawa, who once declared, “Humans don’t die,” echoes quietly in Taninaka’s work.