Shinji Ohmaki @ 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in Japan

2024/06/21

Shinji Ohmaki is participating in the exhibition "Lines - Consciousness in Flow" at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa starting June 22 (Sat).

■Lines —Aligning your consciousness with the flow
2024.6.22(Sat.) - 2024.10.14(Mon.)
Venue:
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Gallery 7 to 12, 14 and Public Zone
Website

-Shinji Ohmaki ( Gallery 7 )
”Plateau 2024”, 2024
(Installation view: “Lines —Aligning your consciousness with the flow”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2024 / Collection of the artist / photo: Shinji Ohmaki Studio)

The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea surrounded by Eurasia continent and the Japanese archipelago and is fed by the Tsushima Warm Current from the Tsushima Strait. The Noto Peninsula, which was hit by the earthquake of 1 January 2024, is the peninsula that protrudes most into this Sea of Japan. In Plateau 2024 by Shinji Ohmaki, the dynamic movement of the continents that make up the world is depicted on a disc, a silver object set above it depicts the sky and ocean above Yamato-tai, and the topography of Yamato-tai is engraved in grooves on a pendulum that moves quietly on the disc. The relationship between land and sea, which changes with time, is always in a state of 'becoming', marking a time different from the axis of time shared by human society. Ohmaki suggests in this work that entities should not be seen as fixed and static, but as something that is captured in a web of relationships and constantly changing in its interaction with the environment, representing the fluctuating 'movement' between the mass of quantity and the nvironment surrounding it.