Hirofu ISO / Komainu
SEP 4, 2007 – JAN 20, 2008
“Once Night Falls” by Hirofu ISO / Komainu will be presented at DIESEL DENIM GALLERY AOAYAM 1F, which will open at its new location in Aoyama. This new installation is a sequel of “Days in Nights”, which focuses on the events that happens in the darkness at night, especially symbolizing how insects are in the darkness. The installation is constructed from insects that are chained and hung from the ceiling, where all fluorescent lamps are placed in a diamond shape.
Normally insects rely on and are led by moonlight and starlight when flying, so in the darkness at night, they are disturbed by “unnatural” lights, fly towards it and sometimes clash into those lights. For insects, those “artificial” lights are the unknown and are imperceptible to their senses, because those lights exist outside the nature. But one day after many thousands of years, insects maybe able to identify the “artificial” lights, and who knows, there might be a new boundary.
Hirofu ISO / Komainu expresses those changes of boundaries that occur when the unknown transforms and becomes the known over the process of time. Here, boundaries can mean the line that can isolate or separate two things, such as “day and night”, “nature and art”, and “life and death”, but it can also be the similarity in those two things.
“Once Night Falls” will relight the new DIESEL DENIM GALLERY AOYAMA and revitalize the place.
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