Golden Forest is an installation created in Kitakata City, Fukushima prefecture, Japan consisting of timber wastes from the demolished house nearby and the driftwood that flowed to other prefecture affected tsunami, all spray painted in gold and installed in the 60 metres long house that is carefully preserved as a city’s cultural heritage site. Hanged from the ceiling, they are an upside-down forest. By being painted in gold, the waste wood is revalued, on the other hand, this process is an act of artificially discontinuing the natural circulation of ecological system to return to the earth. Human creativity and innovations sometimes, distract the order and de-circulate the natural world. In addition, another forest is installed hanging the weeds collected in the city in the same manner. Collocation of two forests is to make a warning to the circulation of the natural world in our present time.
2014, mixed media, dimension variable, installation view at Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale 2014, Fukushima, Japan.
2014, mixed media, dimension variable, installation view at Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale 2014, Fukushima, Japan.
2014, mixed media, dimension variable, installation view at Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale 2014, Fukushima, Japan.
2014, mixed media, dimension variable, installation view at Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale 2014, Fukushima, Japan.
2014, mixed media, dimension variable, installation view at Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale 2014, Fukushima, Japan.
2014, mixed media, dimension variable, installation view at Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale 2014, Fukushima, Japan.
2014, mixed media, dimension variable, installation view at Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale 2014, Fukushima, Japan.
2014, mixed media, dimension variable, installation view at Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale 2014, Fukushima, Japan.