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菅谷奈緒の個展“randonneur”は、彼女の自転車旅行をベースとしている。日本全国に散在する「ふるさと」と銘うたれた奇妙な施設群。それらは、確かに日本の古き佳き故郷をイメージさせるような地域には建っているのだが、むしろその存在こそが、謳おうとしているイメージをぶち壊しにしてしまう。こうした施設群を「ランドナー」と呼ばれる旅行用の自転車で訪ねていく菅谷。小さな列島とはいえ、自転車で巡るにはあまりにも広範囲に分布したそれらを訪ねようという意欲とエネルギーを彼女はどこで手にしたというのだろうか。彼女はそれに直接答えることはなく、淡々とイメージ、映像、音を採集し続けていく。「ふるさと」に向かえば向かうほど、むしろ「ふるさと」から遠ざかっていく菅谷。彼女のランドナーでの旅は、進めば進むほど、残りの旅程が増えてしまう奇妙な旅だ。そしてまた、彼女が実際に使用したランドナー越しに彼女が採取したのものに触れていくとき、わたしたちもその奇妙な旅に呑み込まれていくことになる。
Nao Sugaya’s exhibition “randonneur,” the first one held at art & river bank, is based on her bicycle touring. In all parts of Japan, there are strange facilities that have been given the name “furusato” (which translates to “one’s hometown”). These facilities are built in regions that allow one to imagine one’s hometown in the “good old days” of Japan. But in actuality, their existences are spoiling the images that they claim to be recreating. Sugaya visited many of those facilities on a touring bicycle called a “randonneur.” However small the Japanese islands may be, these “furusato” facilities range over a wide area of the country. Where did she obtain such a strong ambition and energy to want to visit them? Without giving any direct answer to this question, she simply continued to collect images, film and sounds at those facilities. The more she proceeded with her exploration of the images of “furusato,” the further she withdrew from her original idea of “furusato.” Thus, her bicycle tour on the randonneur became a strange one in that the further she progressed, the more the remaining plans she had increased. As our eyes “touch” the images she collected, which are exhibited over the randonneur that she actually rode on, we are also drawn into that strange trip that she experienced.
2009.10.10(sat)～31(sat)
月・火曜日休み
13:00～19:00
opening party
2009.10.10(sat) 17:00-
