Graduating Institute of Advanced Media Arts and
Sciences(IAMAS), Minami started his career as an
artist unit, called "ressentiment". He has been
participated in many international group exhibitions
and recently his works have been shown at "Mind as
Passion"(Taipei Fine Arts Museum), solo exhibition
"Flickers－New Media Art from Japan"(Goethe-Institut,
Hanoi), "The Loss of the Real"(Selasar Sunaryo Art
Space, Bundun, Indonesia) and so on.
This is the third solo show of Minami at Ota Fine
Arts. This time the artist will present the new work
from the installation series of "puppet study". He
has done "puppet study#1", video work collaborating
with a blind continuously opening and closing, and
"puppet study#2", installation of security camera
and video of a gecko lizard and a bug corresponding.
The keyword of the newest work will be interference
between videos. The installation will show
concatenation of different videos: the pattern of
human posing and line drawing animation, and the
movement of the flame of spirit lamps. Between the
moving those images which seem to have no
relationships each other, the theme will appear
trough the system the artist creates.
Minami says that there is his interest behind the
series of "puppet study", which is the relationship
between reality (or real feeling) and the function
that supports it. The phenomenon, that is existed
in reality for granted, is actually linked or
collaborated with the unseen contexture. This is
the connection the artist is highly interested in.
If it takes the stage as an example, this
connection can be seen between the play on stage
and the backstage. Tactfully interchanging this
relationship, "puppet study" shows how easily the
feeling of reality can be re-constructed. "puppet"
is the key to interpretation of the connection
between reality and imaginariness.