Visionaries
Visionaries: Making Another Perspective
Curator: Noriko Kawakami
“Tamura Nao uses the word “interconnections” to indicate the importance of having points of contact between different things, and of maintaining their relationships while keeping them in balance. Tamura has been based in New York since leaving her birth country of Japan at the age of 19, and says that this is something she realized for herself through her own experiences.
To keep the balance between mutual interactions it is not enough to accept the surrounding environment and other people; acts that generate ideas are also essential. “My works always start from multiple questions,” says Tamura. The light fittings that she designed in sympathy with the ideas of a company that felt an immediate need to tell the world about the manual techniques used to create Venetian glass are also of a piece with her argument.>>
Year
2023
Client
Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art
Exhibition Title
Visionaries: Making Another Perspective
Curator
Noriko Kawakami
Producer / Sponsor
WonderGlass
>>Precisely because we live in an era of constant change, in her designs she incorporates the idea of the importance of slowing down and valuing the time for in-depth thinking while making things, and in the development process, she became involved in dialog not only with artisans working in glass but also with the material itself.
The installation that uses this product creates the sense of quietly facing a Venetian canal. It refreshes our awareness of the reality that the landscape in front of us is the world with which each of us is individually engaged. “A designer’s work is to make opportunities to think. I want to seek out paths on which we can walk in a brighter direction, toward the light” says Tamura. She continues posing questions that explore the future.”
Photo
Koroda Takeru
Technical Director
Yutaka ENDO
Special thanks
Yoshiko Yoneyama
Visionaries: Making Another Perspective
A day is made up of thousands and thousands of overlapping moments. However, we live in an era of rapid change. We are less and less able to look at the moments that are surely being carved out of our lives.
To stop and look at the moment. Isn’t it important to pay attention to what is happening right under our feet? This question led to the creation of the “Moment Capture” project, which I have been working on since 2013 with WonderGlass.
The series ‘MOMENT’ has the meaning of ‘capturing the moment’. Cascade captures the flow of a passing river, Momento captures the moment of falling rainwater, depicts a moment in time, and Flow[T], which captures the horizon that stretches to the border between the sea and the ground we live on.
一日は、何千、何万と刻まれてゆく瞬間の重なりから作られている。
しかし、目まぐるしく変化する時代に生きる我々は、
そこに確実に刻まれてゆく瞬間に目を向ける事も少なくなった。
立ち止まり、その瞬間に目をやる事。
今我々の足元で起こっている現状に目をやる事が大切ではないか。
そんな問いかけから2013年から制作を続ける「瞬間を切り取る」
という意味合いがある「モーメント」シリーズ。その第一弾となった、
我々が生きる地上と海の境に広がる地平線を切り取った「フロート」。
変化し続ける自然を肌で感じる、水面に囲まれたベニス街に工房を持つ吹きガラス職人の手により作られています。ガラスという生きた素材は、その素材に耳を傾け、素材そのものの自然な流れに沿わないと壊れてしまう。「人間の勝手に出来ない」その工程から、早いスピードで動く産業の歯車の一部となり、物作りに携わる自分自身にブレーキを踏ませ、そこに新たに見える風景に今求められている物作りのあり方を投影したい、そんな思いを込めた作品です。
All works are based on the motif of water. Andthey are made by a skilled glassblower who has a workshop in Venice, a city surrounded by water where you can feel the ever-changing nature on your skin every day.
Glass, a living material, will break if you don’t know it well, listen to it and follow the natural flow of the material itself. The process of “no man can do it on his own” is the reason why the glass is made by hand.
I want to become part of the cogs in an industry that moves at great speed, to make myself involved in making things put on the brakes, and to project onto the newly visible landscape the kind of craftsmanship that is required nowadays. I also want the people who see the work to stop and feel the moment on their skin.
