I like this story in Japan that goes like this: One day, a person was walking to his home. He walked down the road he walked on a daily basis.
He noticed there was a rock on the ground.
His mind was opened suddenly by noticing a trivial thing.
He felt there was a god here, and that he stood in another world.
He saw that his daily view was changing.
I think phenomena of the world surrounding us always have some kind of system bounds or frameworks,
but we are not aware of being part of such bounds in spite of the fact that all bonds come from just this daily life.
We are looking for something outside our position but we can never exist outside our daily basis.
This made me wonder: if we change our ways of seeing things in daily life, can we than start moving towards the outside framing,
even though we are inside? This means pursuing a parallel, a method of making a distance between you and the phenomena for the coexistence in the world.
My works consist of tiny changes in space(s).
Spaces have memories and time remained by actions of people. These memories can easily be ignored in daily life but with my work I point the attention of the viewer to it.
You can hide a certain object in front of you on purpose.
Then, your mind is opened adversely, because nothing is shown.
Your view cannot be controlled or attracted by any particular point of attention, and there are no structures or lines forcing a connecting stream between you and that point.
I propose that everything is just there and if you change a point of view in daily life, you can transfer to another world just as if you are outside that daily frame.
I find the attitude or stance to keep that up, beautiful. Juat continue this act of tiny changes to confront the frame in the world.
*[back]
Rumiko Hagiwara Curriculum Vitae
Birth:
Tomioka, Gunma, Japan 12/09/1979
Artist residence:
DCR guest studio, Den Haag, NL, 01/2010 ~ 3/2010
Rijks Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 01/2008 ~ 12/2009
Education:
Post St.Joost Institute,Department of Fine Arts, NL, 2006 ~ 2007
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague/KABK, Department of Fine Arts, NL, 2005 ~ 2006
Tokyo Zokei University, Department of Fine Arts,JP, 2004 ~ 2005
- research student
Tokyo Zokei University, Department of Fine Arts, JP, 2000 ~ 2004
Group Exhibitions:
Castle & Elephant, Unit 11, City Arcade, Coventry, UK, 2010
Soot and Spit, Rumiko Hagiwara and Sunah Choi, Sils c/o A-Locatie, Rotterdam, 2010
Rijksakademie Open 2009, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, 2009(exh. cat.)
A la vuelta de la esquina(just around the corner),Ineditos 2009, La Casa Encendida Art Centre, Madrid, SP, 2009(exh. cat.)
Walden Affairs, Den Haag, NL, 2009
Rijksakademie Open 2008, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, 2008(exh. cat.)
Set scene and Decor, W139 basement, Amsterdam, NL, 2007
Film night, SM-S Stedelijk museum 's-Hertogenbosch, NL, 2007
PRE SENSATIE, Lokaal 01, Breda, NL, 2007
LIFE ART, stichting KOP, Breda, NL2007
OPEN, Public Space Den Bosch, Netherlands, public space project in Den Bosch, NL, 2006
KAILASH, studio BIG ART,Yokohama, JP, 2005
Solo Exhibitions:
JUST, Gallery Red Hot, Den Haag, NL, 2006
UNLIGHTING Gallery node, Tokyo, JP, 2003
Grants:
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, 2008
Fellowship 2006 of Tokyo Zokei University, 07/2005 - 06/2005
Exchange program 2005 of Tokyo Zokei University, 02/2004 - 06/2006
*[back]
*[back]
- black points - 2004, 8.5x1cm, 10 instant films
I took the 10 pictures of the sun by instant camera.
The black point appeared in the middle of sun, where the brightest point should have been.
* [back]
- wall - 2005, white paper
I put pieces of white paper on the wall. Then I tore it only along the sides.
It looks like a broken wall.
*[back]
- decor -2007, installation, grope exhibition
The Decor was the title of the exhibition.
I made a baseground as a work in the small room located next to big exhibition room.
By covering grid line of the masking tapes, the room became a refrection of next room.
i traced next room into small room by scaling and cutting nothing area on the scale lines, which is linked other works in next room.
People see real object works at the first and next see the refrection of the works in my work.
All frames of setting are overlapping in my area.
* [back]
- in shadow - 2007, installation, graphite
There is a shadow at the corner of the space.
When people step in the shadow, they notice the rough textures on the wall, floor, and shelling which has been made by people so far.
The textures are appeared by same stroke pencil drawings covered with all shadow surface area. It makes the shadow is stronger than your expectation and looks another space.
There was also a piece of this shadow drawing at the entrance.
*[back]
- exit in my studio - 2009, video, 1min.30sec.
The exit on the table in my studio.
*[back]
- ball - 2005, video installation, 23min.46sec.loop
a passing tennis ball in the momment.
*[back]
- escalator - 2003, video, 5min.57sec.
a man keeps climbing on the escalator
*[back]
- space between yellow and blue - 2009, video installation, 2min.46sec.
The space in between the colors.
*[back]
- square in sky -2009, video, 23min.46sec.loop
The refrection of the TL lamps on the window.
*[back]
- stick and x - 2009, 2min.15sec.loop
Thre is a stick on the ground, and x in the sky.
*[back]
- earthquake M7.0 -2008, video, 2min.33sec.
The earthquake Magnitude 7.0 shaking by hands
*[back]
- H - 2009, tram stop sign, metal pipe, wood cover, window
The window is closed by the wood boards in my studio. There is only small hale with the sign"H" and arrow to look through outside.
you would find "H" of the tram stop that located outside, in the hale.
*[back]
- pen - 2009, pen, flash light
lighted up pen and shadow of the pen connect with its cap.
Items are not important stuff, they are just daily items.
But these items locate with different interval, and connect by illusion shadow line.
This situation only possible when these 3 items are in right location and order . Each item effects each other.
all spot lights are lighting up the camera position in the center of the stage
*[back]
- ceiling in my studio - 2009, 130x130cm, photo, inkjet print
reflection of my studio on the board of ceiling
*[back]
- sky - 2009, 70x105cm, photo, inkjet print
reflection of sky on the car bonnet.
*[back]
- marble and brick - 2009, 135x96cm, photo, inkjet print
one brick on the marble stair.
*[back]
- standing position in my studio - 2008, glass(30x50x0.3cm)
When you stand at the certain point where there is a sign in my studio, you could see a reflection of a round window on the piece of glass at the corner.
I put a tennis ball behind of the window frame. When you stand at front of the window, you cannot notice that there is a tennis ball outside of window.
But in the reflection of the window, you could see the one because the angle of your view is changed.
*[back]
- looking through Edith's office - 2008, door scope, mirror 90x60cm
I made a door scope in the office of Edith Rijnja.
People expect to see her office through the hole, but the angle of the hole is aiming to the window in her office and people catch the images of outside.
The mirror located outside of the window makes more complicated angle, and unexpected view.
*[back]
- in shadow - 2008, graphite, lamp, Remak of in shadow 2004.
There is a shadow of the door in the space.
When people step in the space, they notice the rough textures on the wall, floor, and celling which has been made by people action, inside of the shadow.
The textures are appeared by frottage drawings covered whole shadow area.
It makes the shadow is stronger than what you expected and looks another space.
Because people always calculate amount of light and darkness of the shadow in a balance unconsciously in the ordinary situation.
There were square and circle objects in the space of the gallery.
I took the photo of them and presented it on the wall next to the real objects.
*[back]
- space between black and white - 2008, 15x9x7.5cm, Flip book, inkjet print
This is the book that you can flip from black to white or white to black.
The white color become the ping pong ball in between.
At the end it is going to disappear in the universe and fade in black.
Edition: 5
400euro
* [back]
- the Basketball in the center of the space - 2008, 7.5x8x5cm, basketball, inkjet print photo
There is a basketball hanging in the center of the space.
I made the boxes from the photos of the space. Each side of the box has a basket ball in the center.
People can hold them on their hands and walk around the space with it.
You are inside of the space at the same time outside of the space.
* [back]
- blue square - 2008, tripod, mirror(5x5cm)
The square mirror on the top of the tripod is aiming the direction of sky at the front of the big window inside of the space.
The mirror reflects only sky blue that is the color in the air faraway outside.
You get compressed interval space as just blue square at front of your face.
* [back]
- flash light - 2008, flash light
I inserted the flashlight in the small space of the socket in the corner of the dark space.
Light reflect inside round space and come out.
* [back]
- a triangle - 2008, polaroid film
The photo of the corner in the space. I hang the photo up side down on the wall next to the corner where the photo was taken.
*[back]
- half past 4 - 2007, collaboration with Susanne Bruynzeel, silver sticker,
In the empty space, we stand at the cirtain point and took the shape of the light through the side windows on the floor, at half past 4 on 17th of October.
We put silver stickers in the area of the light reflection in order. Silver was close with floor gray color, they were almost hidden.
when people walk around the area, you see different light refrection on the stickers, then it become visible only soroundings of your standing posittion, because of the light angle.
The real light never be overlap with stickers area on the floor. Time is passing.
* [back]
- tennis ball - 2007, photo(10x7.5cm)
in a moment that tennis ball is almost falling down from the couch in the train.
* [back]
- unlighting,in the room,in the kitchen,in the study room,in the droppipe,in the hole -, 2004, 5 digital pictures
These are installations in daily life situation. I dropped the light, which is usually over our heads, onto the table. We can only see a sliver of light escaping from the cover. I think that light is different from the light in daily life. So, we look down at daily life from far away.
I think we can transform the world into another when we change our ways of seeing things in our daily life.
* [back]
- box - 2004, 3x3cm, paper
I made a crane made from paper. Then I cut two wings, neck and tail. It is a remaining torso of one paper crane without them.
* [back]
- closed - 2006, steel, orange net
'OPEN' Public Space, Den Bosch
One day project of first year Post St Joost in the center of Den Bosch.
Location: Outdoor Car-Park,
There is a box which is the exact size of the parking space. In the open space, people come and go, without defining the spatial boundaries. The box is closed but its inside is empty. The frame which shows my own space is just here.
* [back]
- gate - 2006, transparent tape
I made a line following the shape of the corridor we walk down every day, with transparent tape.
By making many layers, it became thicker and thicker, and white because of air and the dust in between layers.
You notice the line on the ground at first, then your point of view goes up and follows along the surface of the corridor.
The wall is just there and the light is just there.
* [back]
- one line of them - 2006, toothpick
There are some cracks in the floor. I put toothpicks into cracks as a line.
I didn't design this line of toothpick, just selected one line which divided the space.
* [back]
- one piece of wool - 2005, wool
I put a red wool string in the gaps between the floor boards.
Then I tied it into a bow tie in the center of the room. the line is going to around the room and come back to the center of the room.
* [back]
- one thousand paper cranes - 2004, 7x7x7cm, acrylic, ash, water
I made one thousand paper cranes, a symbol of prayer, from origami. (Origami, or paper folding, is a Japanese tradition. One thousand paper cranes are often made in Japan when we pray for recovery from sickness or for peace.)
A month later, I burned it. I mixed the ash with a bit of water in a cubic box. Finally, I set it up on a wall, a little above my own eye height.
* [back]
- pyramid - 2004, 50x50cm, toy bullet
I arranged toy bullets to make a solid square.
Next, I began to layer them, using the gaps in the square form of the bottom layer. I made several layers, and formed a pyramid. Then I turned it upside down. It is standing, balanced on one point.
* [back]
- shuttle - 2006, shuttle
I put a shuttle on top of the wooden paneling of the wall. This is just here.
*[back]
- ways to look - 2009, works catalogue, 76p, laser print, 16.5x12.5x0.5cm
*[back]
- space between black and white - 2008, 15x9x7.5cm, Flip book, inkjet print
Editing: Rumiko Hagiwara, Nishiko
Photography: Rumiko Hagiwara, Willem Vermaas
Graphic design: Nishiko
Edition: 60
20euro
This is the book that you can flip from black to white or white to black.
The white color become the ping pong ball in between.
At the end it is going to disappear in the universe and fade in black.
