《山の心音》

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2024

インスタレーション

デュアルチャンネル・ビデオ 8分17秒, 詩, サウンド, テキスタイル 18m 

 

2024年「北アルプス国際芸術祭2024」での展示風景

協力：逸見祥希、立澤史郎、若生晋輔

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Heart Sound of the Mountain

 

2024

Installation

Dual channel video 8 minutes 17 seconds, poem, sound, textile 18m　

 

Exhibition view at the 2024 Northern Alps International Art Festival 2024

​corporation： Hemmi Yoshiki, Tatsuzawa Shirow, Wakaiki Shinsuke

 

 

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数時間前まで山で激しく脈打っていた動物の心臓を持って、新宿の街を彷徨う。

ここでの生とあそこでの生は何がこんなにも違うのだろうか―。

本作は、山に生きる猟師や山小屋の主から、 そこで生きる術を学ぶなかで

「山を手繰り寄せていく」過程そのものを写し取った写真群とサウンドで構成される。

「山を知る人」との対話や関わりを通じて「山をつくる」作品である。

 

現在も獣の解体で使用されている猟師小屋を舞台に、

山を知る人々が自分の身体にほかの生物の視点や

山自体を取り込む(インストールする) ことによって見えてくる世界など、

山のかけらのようなイメージで満たされた空間で、鑑賞者を山の奥深くへといざなう。

 

作者は、大町の猟師に同行した猟で、

鹿の「命の灯が消える時に現れる碧の瞳」と出会った。

「瞳という不思議な窓」を行き来しながら、山、動物、人、生、死のめぐりを描く。

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Hunters walk the wild mountains, shoot prey, dress kills, and receive life from them. Scripcariu-Ochiai Ana observed this process closely, and produced a video installation in a shed used for cleaning the kills, featuring photographic images and sound.

Ochiai visited Omachi in the winter of 2024, and accompanied hunters into the mountains. Upon reaching a ridge, a deer passed before their eyes. She attended the dressing of this big deer's body after it was shot, and was given its heart, which had been beating until a few hours before, to take with her back to Tokyo. The deer's eyes gradually shifting color to an emerald hue made a strong impression on her.

The first section of the slides featured visions of humans chasing the deer. Over projected photographs and words, the calls of the hunters cornering the beast from four sides were played. Then, the sound of a shot triggered the scene to shift to the perspective of the deer. Verbal elements disappeared, and the photographic images conveyed movement down an animal trail, before the piece concluded with an emerald eye covering the screen: an expression of how a soul meets the moment of death.

After watching the video, visitors exited the shed and walked down an emerald path. Released from the viewpoint of the deer, they stood in a landscape overlooking the Northern Alps. The work pulled a scene from the mountain through the eyes of human and deer as though they were windows, and pursued the relationship between people and animals, which are both elements of nature.