《君之代》 (2017) ©毒山凡太朗
《君之代》 (2017) ©毒山凡太朗
1984年福島県生まれ/東京在住。
2011.3.11、故郷が一変し、途方もない絶望を突きつけられたことが、今まで通り過ぎてきた理不尽や矛盾と向き合うきっかけとなった。と同時に、自身が社畜と化して働き続けてきたサラリーマン生活と、気づくことなく寄生していた刹那にまみれた労働者の群像、現行の社会システムを見つめ、作品制作へと突き動かした。これまで、過去にネットやメディアで取り上げられた事件や事象の起きた場所をめぐり、「逃げたいのに逃げられない」人々の心理や現実的な状況を目前にし、逃避が不可能となっている状況や社会の同調圧力構造を真正面から受け止め、作品制作をしてきた。既に世間から忘れ去られた場所、置き去りにされた記憶を再調査することで、見えてきた真実や、新たな打開策を提案し、それらの場所や事象に変化を試みてきた。誰しもが生活に追われる日常の中では、問題と思える問題を問題として取り上げなくなり、見過ごし、見落としてしまう。もはや風景と化した問題とバカ真面目に向き合い、問題をすり替えることで違った角度から捉えなおしたいと思っている。それは拮抗した社会の歯車を回した先に見られるはずの現実を、この目で見たいという欲求からである。
Born in 1984 in Fukushima.
Currently lives in Tokyo. On March 11, 2011, he witnessed the utterly change of his hometown, and he faced deep despair, which became a motivation for him to confront arbitrariness and contradictions that he had overlooked. At the same time, he began to rethink his own life as a salaried employee, who had been working as a corporate slave, and also began to observe the flock of workers, who are made unconscious of their dependency on the current social mechanism. These observations have driven him to create his own artwork. Through creating art works, he has been trying to directly face the inescapable situation and the mental state of people, who "want to escape but cannot escape" in the localities, where media-covered incidents and phenomena happened in the past, and trying to understand the cause and the mechanism of social conformity. By re-researching the forgotten places and memories left-behind by the society, he has been attempting to reveal the reality, and to thresh out new formula to create changes in these places and events. While being chased by everyday life, issues are no longer considered as issues, and they are simply ignored. He wishes to face these issues that have been assimilated and become invisible in the landscape of everyday life, by approaching them from different angles. This is induced by his desire to see the reality that should be present when the society starts to operate.