Monthly Archives: September 2013

Statement — Towards Another Awareness of Space

February 2011 MEGUMI MATSUBARA I’ve chosen experiential space as my medium. The space where architecture and art meet, where the borders between the two cease to be an issue. My approach is an attempt to reveal a different awareness of spatiality; to explore, through a collection of ephemeral experiences, the other side of the pleats that is always hidden, the mechanisms of a secretive world . To begin with, I don’t see the borders between visible/invisible, heard/unheard, countable/uncountable. Important to the process of my work, is not the drawing of a line between ‘whether’ or ‘not’, but the search for a balance between two seemingly opposite phenomena. When I succeed… Continue reading →

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Architecture Driven by Stories

Kime to Kehai – Texture and Sense Artists: Anni LEPPÄLÄ, Assistant [MATSUBARA Megumi + ARIYAMA Hiroi], NOMURA Makoto, HOKI Nobuya Curators: KONDO Yuki, HATTORI Hiroyuki (ACAC) Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori, Japan July 28 – September 17, 2012  HIROYUKI HATTORI There are types of architecture for which associated narratives rather than their designs are critical to the determination of their value. Now in its final stages of construction, the work House of 33 Years [fig.1] by Assistant, the architecture studio formed by ARIYAMA Hiroi and MATSUBARA Megumi, is also a piece of architecture of that kind, accompanied by countless fascinating stories. Those stories are not necessarily created intentionally by the architect’s hand, but rather,… Continue reading →

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