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Erika Kobayashi
Coexistence
Year: 2019
Materials: PVC pipe, resin coating
Dimensions: H5200 W3780 D1000 mm
Exhibition Location: 2F Public Area
Artist's Statement:
Reality and unreality / Micro and macro / Nothingness and existence / Inside and outside / Up and down, etc... Opposing things always coexist. It's obvious, yet the more you think about it, the more they blur and their boundaries become ambiguous. (For example, one's “right space” becomes the “left space” for someone to their right, creating a coexistence of both.) Yet, centered on the self, both definitely exist. But this too only exists because of the opposition between self and other... So where is the boundary between self and other...? It's the chicken and the egg. Ultimately, multiple things can only “coexist” through their opposition.
PROFILE
Erika kobayashi was born in 1994 in Tokyo. In 2017 she graduated from Musashino Art Universitys' Bachelor of Arts, Department of Sculpture. In 2019 she graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts’ Graduate School of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture.
Currently, she focuses on living spaces related to water, creating sculptures that distort senses and spaces as themes such as “impurity, dirt, and phobias” that arise or have arisen from daily life.