Yasuko Toyoshima Web Site

Fix (2009-)

Everything cannot avoid staying in a place-the SPACE where we are conceptually and physically.
Fundamentally, making works of art is to decide of the ways of positioning and fixing something or a concept in a place-the SPACE.
Searching for an ideal way of positioning and fixing, I take some models to refer to spaces and materials.\\ I installed the models into a space for exhibitions, as a series of works titled 'FIX'

'Fix' (numerous):
I made wooden number cards, drilled them to make holes for threading, wrote down numbers on them (from 0 to 9). The thread is threaded through the holes of wooden number cards and fastened up loosely. They were threaded according to the order of the numbers. Because of being fastened (or tied up) loosely, in case I put it on the table or wall, the positioning of the cards is not stable. We lost the order of the numbers but the instability was fixed by the fastening. I made a multiple realm of fixations.

'Fix'(name):
I made wooden cards on which my name was written and divided them by letters, by character, and drilled them to making holes for threading. Because of being fastened (or tied up) loosely, in case I put it on the table or wall, the positioning of the cards is not stable. We lost the order of the cards and we could not recognize that my name was written on them. But the instability was fixed by the fastening. I made a multiple realm of fixations.

'Expression' is fundamentally for passing on a personal message. It is an artificial event in everyday life, against neutral days. In order to make people recognize the 'expression' that needs stability. It is not only physically but also conceptually, otherwise, it would be categorized a natural phenomena.
The meaning (the concept) needs to be replayed again and again for people (audience).

In order to make people recognize the 'expression', which is ultimately aimed at people, it takes a long period of time.

The 'expression' that I would like to categorize in this context, is 'disobey'.

As if the 'expression' suggests a virtual domain or a real site, as if the 'expression' wants to be an invisible layer, it needs a frame as an analogy of 'space'. The 'frame' is a thread of thinking, it means the way of recognition, the system of thinking of human beings.

In short, the expression has to be FIXED on the real world; it should stay with us. This context's of FIX contains also fixing on the any media, not only real space, but also digital media, etc.
I have been thinking about the way of FIX, the system of fixing fundamentally. What I made was a series of style for fundamental construction for Fixing.

I found that the BODY of the 'expression' has to have holes physically or analogically in it. The 'expression' itself should contain or become a tool of putting or connecting the space.
The holes are used as a function to tie up other parts. But tied up, the 'expression' becomes a part of the space, part of the background of the 'expression'.