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BORO AGE

工藤 修司 Shuji KUDO

2019.4.10 – 5.12

Shanghai

The deposition of time and the rebellion of “cloth” & silver

-a comparison of lives between ancient Japanese and nowadays human

 

Nietzsche once mentioned that the essence of getting drunk is completely self-lost or self-abandoned. He believed that the spirit of Dionysus1 came from the Dionysia. The main thing that humans would do during the festival is to liberate their upmost primitive impulses and desires. When people are facing the pain or horror, apart from seeking the power in Apollo’s dream world, they also go to the world of Dionysus2 to forget themselves.

 

The joys and sorrows in our earthly lives come from the rational suppression and judgment, therefore, “getting drunk” is the medium for us to escape and liberate.

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About the artist

Shuji KUDO

Shuji KUDO (b.1981)

 

People, things, and events repeatedly divide, fuse, destroy, generate, and establish. In that process, there are periods of becoming more assertive and becoming weaker and changes. Then, one day it will disappear, and something will be created again. It shouldn’t be horror but the establishment of its existence and consciousness as an afterthought. It is a work that imagines the passage of time as if it were a cell—creating silence by creating space and by making the inside create a slightly different condensed atmosphere to the outside.

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