森川 穣 Minoru MORIKAWA

A red yarn make circle inside and outside of A'holic. An expansion of domain.

A collaboration work with about 200 junior high school students in Ube, Yamaguchi.
About 10,000 leaves colored by children were spread in the space and people could enter.

The installation at the ex-stockroom of salt.
A horizontal line of light runs through the space and there is "landscape" made of 1t of salt in the line.
The "landscape" was made by 100 local children in 4 days workshop.

More than 200 photos of light in Brig are projected on the wall.
The light comes through the slits at the top and bottom of the wall.
When people go across the light, their shadows can be seen from the slits too.

The installation at the atelier of Willi Dreesen who died in 2013.
People can see his drwaings from the window outside and also can feel the light or sound of outside through his drwaings inside of the atelier.
The Renaissance theorist Leon Battista Alberti regarded painting as "open window (finestra aperta)" in his book "De pictura"(1435).
This installation shows the elements beyond representation or perspective of painting with the real "open window".

A cup of water comes out from cracks of vases. Their outlines are expanded.

A moment when the outline of daily life melts like a leak.

Snow water drops from the container on top to bottom and it plays tiny 'spring song'.

Selected curation in 'Gallery PARC Art Competition 2014'.
Everyone has their own sense of mapping. We reach to the destination with original mark in the real world and each mark is different from other's.
Works of Ayako Matsumoto and Yuma Yamashiro remain us our premitive sense of mapping.
We also referred various aspects of painting through the displyay.
We displayed Matsumoto's works vertically and Yamashiro's works horizontally in the first term. We reversed the display in the second term.

Rain drops from the cup on top to bottom as relay like a leak of daily lives

Rain evaporated by solar heat covers the surface of acrylic dome.

Rain evaporated by electric heater covers the surface of acrylic dome.

The domes that contain the rain in Japan are settled on the table.
Wind-bells made of found objects in Russian market and 5 yen coins are hung from the ceiling.
Text written by Yo Hamada who is the comparative religion researcher is on the papers of wind-bells.
To keep the rain pool that disappears and the wind that passes through.

A red thread sews crevices of the house. It is like a draft which connects time and space.

This exhibition was held in Jokaiso built about 80 years ago in Komaki Aichi prefecture JAPAN.
The title 'utsusemi' means human living in this present and empty shell of cicada in Japanese and it expresses ephemerality.
This exhibition includes eight artists living in this present and their works are just like empty shells, in the sense that they are modest and inexpressive, and are blended of the space surrounding them, functioning as a kind of catalyst.
It is more about what the artworks give the viewers access to, than what the artworks actually are.
The artworks have become, so to speak, empty shells without entity.
Furthermore, various synergistic effects were seen because the venue has long unoccupied, or has become utsusemi itself.
Visitors could notice of every beautiful detail of this house and its rich history when they wandered all over the place, looking at the artworks scattered around.
Another exhibition 'utakata' (means babble) was held at ArtLab Aich located in Nagoya at the same time.
Talk event with Fuminori Akiba who is a researcher of aesthetics was held as well and the contents are recorded in the catalogue of this exhibition in the end.

This is the space to feel the light, air and sound from the window behind the wall through the slit running on the top(ame) and bottom(tsuchi) of the wall.
Comparative Religion Researcher Yo Hamada’s text ‘The Limited and The Unlimited’ is written on the backside of ‘Ame-Tsuchi’.
The atmosphere of the reader goes through the slit of the wall.

Collavboration with a shoe brand NO. I made halls with soldering iron on shoes. Two shoelaces run on a shoe like ivy.

Winning piece in 24th UBE Biennale.
The light from the lake before the site comes through many halls on this sculpture.
Besides, you can also see the landscape through the halls.
This is the sculpture as a wall that separates ‘here’ and ‘there’ and connects them softly at the same time.

This is the space to feel the light, air and sound from the window behind the wall through the slit running on the top(ame) and bottom(tsuchi) of the wall.
You could also see the backside of ‘Ame-Tsuchi’ from the window and find Etsutomu Kasihara’s Painting (Silencer).
The face of this work could be reversed.

I put one container outside before I sleep and repeated it for 100 days.
Those containers are placed as grid like calendar.
100th day was the final day of exhibition.
Viewer saw these with only lights above some containers that contained rain.

Selected in ‘Open Competition Kyoto Art Center 2010’.
1cm slit runs straightly on 10m-long-wall of the gallery.
You can see what was carried out from under the building through the slit.
You can find out the history of Kyoto Art Center as former elementary school.

22nd December 2009. The winter solstice. The day when the sunlight becomes the weakest of the year.
I took the light with pin hole camera for 24 hours through the airway under the windows of the corridor.
The light is actually so weak but it becomes certain light source lighting the darkness under the building.
Each photo was displayed on each window above the site where each image was taken.

Viewer could enter the inside only from the narrow entrance.
There was 1cm & 360°straight slit inside.
You could see sands and stones from the thin slit.
Those were lifted up from under the studio.

Proposal for '23rd UBE Biennale' and finalist of the model. Collaboration with an architect Masayuki Nakahata.
You can see the rolling landscape insaide through the 360°slit on the cube.
This wonder landscape is made as the result of the structure to make 360°slit.

I made countless my thumb cast with earth & water from River Thames.
All of them were destroyed by myself at the end.

The mud ball with earth & water from River Thames.
The evaporated water appears as if the mud ball breathes.

I painted the 10m-roll-paper with 100 pencils and I erased it with 100 erasers