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Curatorial Statement: Miyata Jiro, 1996 "Miyata Jiro" by Momoyo Torimitsu is a life size replica of the typical Japanese businessman. Sporting a suit, glasses, and a receding hair line complete with a comb-over, Miyata has mechanically crawled the metropolises of New York, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Sydney. With the aid of the artist in full nurse costume, the duo engages street and business life (Miyata has crawled the likes of Wall Street and La Defense -- epicenters of business cultures as well as typical touristic destinations). The performance and audience reactions were videotaped and photographed and six monitors at the Dikeou Collection play the respective videos, each identified by a small flag for the country in which the crawl took place. Curatorial Statement: Somehow I Don't Feel Comfortable Momoyo Torimitsu's gigantic inflatable bunnies, entitled "Somehow I don't feel comfortable", are a reflection of contemporary social angst and modern popular iconography. As a reflection of this, two bunnies slump corners facing each other in a sad, lonely, manner-entirely filled with air, erect and purposeful, but also in a space that such an erectness almost does not fit, both emotionally and physically. The bunnies are those you would find on the end of a vendor's stick at a church fair or in an Easter basket-yes the stereotypical inflatable-but in their position they reflect a predetermined fatalization of their Art Historical predecessor, Jeff Koons' stainless steel rabbit and more recent puppy, much less attribute a nod to Oldenberg-resolute in their Pop animation and appropriation. Drawings of these and other Torimitsu bunnies were featured in issue #15 of zingmagazine. Devon Dikeou |