Rintaro Fuse "WHEN TO KISS NAMES"
session：2021.5.28fri.-6.26sat. 7.3sat. 13:00-19:00
the work starts 00 minutes, 20 minutes, 40 minutes every hour.
＊closed on Sun, Mon, Tue and public holidays.
"In response to many request, we extend this session for one week"
venue：SNOW Contemporary
SNOW Contemporary is pleased to present Rintaro Fuse's solo exhibition "WHEN TO KISS NAMES"from May 28 toJune 26 July 3, 2021.
Rintaro Fuse, born in 1994, is an artist who uses a wide range of media, including painting, video, iPhone, and printing, and is also active in other fields such as exhibition curation and critique. Fuse attracted public attention for his exhibition "iphone mural" (2016), which contrasted the "confused reality" constructed after the advent of smartphones with the way people who painted cave murals tens of thousands of years ago dealt with nature. Since then, he has been highly recognized for his collaboration projects with artists, poets, musicians, and designers of his generation. Such exhibitions include “New Loneliness” (2019) or “ITCCC - Isolated Type Close Contact Chamber” (2020), an exhibition held with a website that one person could only access at a time during the spread of the disease. The shows unveiled the invisible issues and discomforts that certainly exist, for example, how human consciousness and behaviors change along with the rapid development of media and how it changes the distance between society and humans.
In this solo exhibition, Fuse will present a new video work focusing on "names," as well as several spray paintings. We are currently experiencing the emergence of new connections and fragmentation in the relationship between society and people due to the restrictions on behavior caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the rapid popularization of remote work. Fuse was intrigued by the news that the demand for matching apps rapidly increases under the current lifestyle of avoiding closeness. He says that the generalization of people meeting through handle names and deepening their relationships without even knowing their real names has made him think about "The Community of Lovers" anew.
We warmly welcome viewers to this occasion to explore how Fuse captures and gives shape to society’s changing attitudes and values.
About the works in the exhibition / Rintaro Fuse
This solo exhibition mainly features a new video work based on research into matching apps, in which the number of users has increased dramatically over the past year. Multiple secret rooms are fostered in cities via the internet in response to the infectious disease that slips through cracks. The work began by imagining such a scene in today's world, where the boundaries between safety and security have faded away.
The first thing I did was to write a poem titled "Anode and Cathode.” It was a story of an encounter over a network, metaphorizing the names of the characters as "anode" and "cathode," the names of the positive and negative poles in an electronic circuit. It was a story about having a relationship with someone whose name you don't know, without knowing their name, and imagining the silence shared there. Then, based on this poem, musician Yusaku Arai created sound, and I edited it in combination with footage collected on the internet.
The anode and cathode switch between positive and negative electrodes in electrolysis and batteries. The anode is the positive pole (where electrons flow out) in electrolysis, while it becomes the negative pole (where current flows in) in a battery; the cathode is vice versa. A light-emitting diode uses semiconductors in between to convert electricity into light, and in contrast, a solar panel uses the conversion of light into electricity. Between these "two/two" particles, energy is generated, light seeps out, and positive and negative sides are swapped as the particles run around. This project attempts to organize and develop the relationship between love in a network, time in a cave, the problem of contact, and contemporary poetry, which I have been researching until now.
The process of making this work was also to contemplate over what Georges Bataille described as "La communauté des amants (Community of Lovers)/恋人たちの共同体." While the legal and institutionalized community of marriage aims at production and reproduction, "La communauté des amants (Community of Lovers)/恋人たちの共同体" aims at the debauchery of energy in a two-party relationship. And while Bataille's thought was defined by the model of "man/woman," this project is designed to consider the issues of energy and capital in an alternative way, from a perspective of materialism.
session：2021.5.28fri.-
the work starts 00 minutes, 20 minutes, 40 minutes every hour.
＊closed on Sun, Mon, Tue and public holidays.
"In response to many request, we extend this session for one week"
venue：SNOW Contemporary
SNOW Contemporary is pleased to present Rintaro Fuse's solo exhibition "WHEN TO KISS NAMES"from May 28 to
Rintaro Fuse, born in 1994, is an artist who uses a wide range of media, including painting, video, iPhone, and printing, and is also active in other fields such as exhibition curation and critique. Fuse attracted public attention for his exhibition "iphone mural" (2016), which contrasted the "confused reality" constructed after the advent of smartphones with the way people who painted cave murals tens of thousands of years ago dealt with nature. Since then, he has been highly recognized for his collaboration projects with artists, poets, musicians, and designers of his generation. Such exhibitions include “New Loneliness” (2019) or “ITCCC - Isolated Type Close Contact Chamber” (2020), an exhibition held with a website that one person could only access at a time during the spread of the disease. The shows unveiled the invisible issues and discomforts that certainly exist, for example, how human consciousness and behaviors change along with the rapid development of media and how it changes the distance between society and humans.
In this solo exhibition, Fuse will present a new video work focusing on "names," as well as several spray paintings. We are currently experiencing the emergence of new connections and fragmentation in the relationship between society and people due to the restrictions on behavior caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the rapid popularization of remote work. Fuse was intrigued by the news that the demand for matching apps rapidly increases under the current lifestyle of avoiding closeness. He says that the generalization of people meeting through handle names and deepening their relationships without even knowing their real names has made him think about "The Community of Lovers" anew.
We warmly welcome viewers to this occasion to explore how Fuse captures and gives shape to society’s changing attitudes and values.
About the works in the exhibition / Rintaro Fuse
This solo exhibition mainly features a new video work based on research into matching apps, in which the number of users has increased dramatically over the past year. Multiple secret rooms are fostered in cities via the internet in response to the infectious disease that slips through cracks. The work began by imagining such a scene in today's world, where the boundaries between safety and security have faded away.
The first thing I did was to write a poem titled "Anode and Cathode.” It was a story of an encounter over a network, metaphorizing the names of the characters as "anode" and "cathode," the names of the positive and negative poles in an electronic circuit. It was a story about having a relationship with someone whose name you don't know, without knowing their name, and imagining the silence shared there. Then, based on this poem, musician Yusaku Arai created sound, and I edited it in combination with footage collected on the internet.
The anode and cathode switch between positive and negative electrodes in electrolysis and batteries. The anode is the positive pole (where electrons flow out) in electrolysis, while it becomes the negative pole (where current flows in) in a battery; the cathode is vice versa. A light-emitting diode uses semiconductors in between to convert electricity into light, and in contrast, a solar panel uses the conversion of light into electricity. Between these "two/two" particles, energy is generated, light seeps out, and positive and negative sides are swapped as the particles run around. This project attempts to organize and develop the relationship between love in a network, time in a cave, the problem of contact, and contemporary poetry, which I have been researching until now.
The process of making this work was also to contemplate over what Georges Bataille described as "La communauté des amants (Community of Lovers)/恋人たちの共同体." While the legal and institutionalized community of marriage aims at production and reproduction, "La communauté des amants (Community of Lovers)/恋人たちの共同体" aims at the debauchery of energy in a two-party relationship. And while Bataille's thought was defined by the model of "man/woman," this project is designed to consider the issues of energy and capital in an alternative way, from a perspective of materialism.
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