Yuki Muraoka solo exhibition “in The room”
Date| Wednesday, August 28, 2024 － Monday, September 16, 2024
Time| 11:00-19:00
Opening days|
・8/28 (Wed) – 9/1 (Sun),
・9/6 (Fri) – 9/8 (Sun),
・9/13 (Fri) – 9/16 (Mon)
Location| EUSO GALLERY Kiyosu-ryo ロ-14 209, 1-3-13 Shirakawa, Koto-ku, Tokyo
I will have a solo exhibition with the support of architect Kazuho Date, who is also a classmate of mine in junior high and high school! For the first time, we will exhibit video works! !️
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This solo exhibition “in The room” is a solo exhibition by sculptor Yuki Muraoka set in “Kiyosu Dormitory” located in Shirakawa 1-chome, Koto-ku, Tokyo. In order to give an overview of this exhibition, I would like to first talk about the Kiyosu dormitory, which is the stage.
Kiyosu Dormitory is a private housing complex built in 1933 (Showa 8) made of reinforced concrete (hereinafter referred to as “RC construction”). In Japan, the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 (Taisho 12) led to the spread of new overseas construction technologies using RC construction aimed at improving earthquake resistance and fire resistance performance from the conventional architectural culture centered on wooden structures. In this way, Kiyosu Dormitory is a valuable example in that it was the beginning of Japan’s housing complex using the latest technology at the time, and it is still lived in today.
One of the characteristics of this kind of architecture is that the structure and sense of scale based on the traditional lifestyle that had been formed in the wooden houses up to that time have been transplanted directly into the new structure made of iron and stone. In other words, while new building technologies were imported, there was no immediate change in the way of life there. As a result, visitors to Kiyosu Dormitory may feel somewhat uncomfortable with the space where the structure made possible by the technology of the time is mixed with the style and culture found in traditional wooden houses in Japan.
This solo exhibition can be said to be a testing ground for Yuki Muraoka, who began with the artist’s careful decipherment of the discomfort of the space of the Kiyosu dormitory, and then conceived the work as a new entity to be transplanted into it and the spatial experience created by transplantation.
Text: Kazuho Date (Architect)
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Composition| Kazuho Date
Cooperation| euso gallery, Beeslow
Graphic Design| Yutaro Yamada