吉川雄大

YudaiYoshikawa

One of the reasons why staring oneself in infinity mirrors is considered ominous especially in Japan is that they can dismantle self-perception. Staring at one's image in a mirror causes a kind of Gestalt decomposition. This means that self-awareness is dependent on something other than the self, the image reflected in the mirror. In other words, there is only an arbitrary association between the two. We seldom notice this arbitrariness. But if this association is arbitrary, then we paradoxically acknowledge the chaotic expansion of the world outside of it. One hundred years have passed since André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto, and what they aimed for was the representation of such a world. This exhibition consists of a collection of collages combining four identical photographs that have been reversed and inverted. By using the principle of the infinity mirrors, our predetermined perceptions are dismantled and chaos, unconsciousness, madness, holiness, Kegare - whatever it is called, which has been intuitively perceived in the East and West since the ancient times, is brought to our side.