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TaiTan Shares His Highlights from Tokyo’s Inaugural Major SIDE CORE Exhibition
Please share your thoughts on the highlights of SIDE CORE’s first major exhibition in Tokyo, Concrete Planet.
TaiTan: I found the new work Tokyo no Tori (2024), which features a large collection and collage of numerous street signs, to be fascinating. By viewing a collection of construction signs that are slightly misaligned in their designs, I was surprised to realize that there is no standard pictogram that exists across all of them.
TaiTan: Another piece that left an impression on me was Junrei Roadside (2017), where I identified locations using footage from live cameras set up in Tokyo and Fukushima. I actually visited those places and took photographs while placing a color filter over the camera lens.
TaiTan: The perspective on how two different places represented by live cameras are connected really stimulates the imagination beyond the video. While it’s a conceptual piece, I appreciated the approach of creating a physical “impact” in the landscape and the humor in the behind-the-scenes story about using filters on the lenses of Takeshi Kitano’s films to shape the worldview.
What kind of inspiration did you receive from SIDE CORE today?
TaiTan: The term “concrete,” which is also part of the exhibition title, symbolizes the city and carries an immovable image. However, SIDE CORE shakes up that interpretation from a fresh perspective, layering small physical actions to create change. I also always want to intervene in the fixed interpretations and structures within society from a new viewpoint, so I was inspired by SIDE CORE’s way of disrupting and deconstructing order.
