Statement (English)

"The World is Mine"

Curated by: Yuki Okumura
Venue：Hiromi Yoshii Five, Roppongi

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#1 (Nov. 19 ? Dec. 25 2004)
Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi / Keisuke Yamamoto / Naho Yokoya

#2 (Jan. 7 ? Feb. 5 2005)
Taro Izumi / Yuki Okumura / Akira Shimizu




photo: Takako Kitsukawa
DM design: Shin Akiyama / schtucco
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The World is Mine

by Yuki Okumura


No one knows since when, but the “self” of each of us has been traveling directly between two opposite poles: the “close area” consisting of family, friends, lovers and such and the “distant area” consisting of quantum, space, truth, life, death and such. In this framework, “the world,” including “society,” “others” and “body”, only appears to us to be an unreachable “view” out of our never opened windows.

We know that none of us can commune anymore with “others,” nor go back anymore to “the world” as a member of it, and at the same time, that the space in which we physically live cannot be anywhere but “the world” itself.

Keeping a silly dream of reaching out to it, although we know the dream will never come true, we stretch our arms outwards - so egoistically and even romantically.


[Yuki Okumura / artist]

translated by Yuki Okumura
proofread by Linda Dennis