Masashi Beppu
“ 2011-2018 ”
2018Excellence Award
ARTIST STATEMENT
2011-2018
- · When a honeybee heads toward a flower, it does not recognize the world around the flower. You should look at the outside of what you have decided to look at.
- · To maintain a primitive sensibility, keep a healthy distance from the many things we encounter in life – work, excursions, customs, arts, technology – and connect with simplicity.
- · It's exactly when you are headed toward some other objective, that you can suddenly recognize the world with a discerning eye. (This is because it is too easy when looking or creating to become captive to the objective you have already laid out.
Entries form: 585 A4 printed photos placed in a file folder
Selecting judge: Takashi Yasumura
This file folder left a powerful impression with the overwhelming number and quality of its daily collections. Its outward appearance is like a specimen book crammed to overflowing with tiny prints, yet the conspicuous homogeneity of each photo and the initial image of disorder are actually cohesive without feeling out of place, appearing like a single cluster of everyday collections. The artist said he didn't act when taking these photos, but that is words to embody how photographs are composed outside the consciousness of the maker. I sensed the absence of indecision and desire cast off in the midst of work made habitual.
PROFILE
Masashi Beppu
Born in 1989
Solo exhibition
2011 Muito no Byousha at the Yarimizu Youth Museum of Art
Group exhibition
2016 “seasidepoolside” at Inage Seaside Park
2018Excellence Award