Solo Show "Mayumi Enoki - Tabetemiru"
20 August - 1 September, 2002
CASO, Osaka, Japan
Artist's Note
2002年２月
昨年秋のデザイン学会で発表した「シミュラクラ・フード」では、食べ物がテーマだったので、
それ以来毎日食べ物の写真を撮っている。
梅干しだけの日の丸弁当の、そのシンプルなデザイン性に気づく。
Hさんに会う。布にインクジェットプリントができる設備が会社にあるという。いくつかサンプルをお願いする。
ふと、この梅干しが下着になった姿が浮かんだ。
食べることと身体性において何か関係があるからなのか。取り残されたテーマ。
他にも薄手の布があるというので、それを試してみよう。
2002年６−７月
梅干しの写真を取り直す。シワやご飯粒のちょっとした具合が気に入らなかったので。
DMをデザインする。画廊のスペースを思い浮かべながら。
ポストカードという平面もまた、そこに立体的な空間をはらんでいる。
布を仕立てる。出来上がった作品を外へ出し、裏の畑で鉄製のスタンドとともに撮影する。
夕暮れの空の下、静かに風に身をまかすそれら。
あるいは失った身体のシミュラクラというべきかもしれない。
Artist's Note
February 2002
“Simulacra Foods” was the theme of the presentation I gave at JSSD last autumn, and since then I have been photographing everyday meals.
I was drawn to the simple image of the pickled plum in the Hinomaru lunch box. Around that time, I met Ms. H, who told me her studio had an inkjet printer capable of printing on fabric. I asked her to make a few small samples.
One day, the idea came to me—what if this pickled plum became underwear?
Perhaps it was because eating and food are so deeply tied to the body. That thought became the seed of the work.
June–July 2002
I photographed the pickled plum again, trying to capture the image I held in mind. At the same time, I designed a postcard for my August exhibition.
While imagining the gallery space, I began to see the installation more clearly. A postcard is flat, a two-dimensional surface—yet it also seems to suggest a virtual, three-dimensional space.
From the printed fabric, I made underwear pieces. I brought them into the backyard, arranged them with the iron bar-stand work, and photographed them. Then I left them there.
Under the twilight sky, the pieces swayed in the breeze.
Perhaps they were no longer just objects, but simulacra—traces of a lost corporeality.
Body Fact #1, 2002, inkjet-printed fabric, hanger, 160x50x10 cm (dimension variable)
Photo ©︎ Kazutaka Tamura
Body Fact #3, 2002, inkjet-printed fabric, hanger, 61x51x8.5 cm each (dimension variable)
Photo ©︎ Kazutaka Tamura
Body Fact #2, 2002, inkjet-printed fabric, hanger, 50x50x10 cm each (dimension variable)
Photo ©︎ Kazutaka Tamura
Gallery view, CASO, Osaka, 20th August - 1st September, 2002
Photo ©︎ Kazutaka Tamura
Gallery view, CASO, Osaka, 20th August - 1st September, 2002
Photo ©︎ Kazutaka Tamura
Simulacra and Food
The sizzling image conveys the deliciousness and freshness of food.
It is as though visual language itself conjures the very things we eat.
When we reflect on this process of visualization, the familiar images of food in modern life appear as simulacra—representations that stand in place of the real.
In other words, the visual image becomes the model for reality.
Today, food has become not only a symbol of consumer society but also a subject shaped and circulated as information.
Food Diary March 30, 2002 #3, 2002, inkjet print, undefined size
Food Diary March 30, 2002 #2, 2002, inkjet print, undefined size
Food Diary May 29, 2002 #3, 2002, inkjet print, undefined size
