This video installation is based on the motif of the Golden Pavilion (Shariden) at Rokuonji Temple in Kyoto, and is composed of two cathode-ray tube televisions placed diagonally opposite each other and a single transparent screen suspended between them.One is an image of the Golden Pavilion taken in the 1940s before it was destroyed by fire, and the other is a live camera image of the Golden Pavilion after its reconstruction. The process of creating the fictional Golden Pavilion by having the image-generating AI learn from these two video sources and information on lost historical buildings in Japan and abroad (Notre Dame Cathedral, Shuri Castle, Kowloon Fortress, etc.) is shown on a transparent screen.
Inspired by Yukio Mishima's novel "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion," this work attempts to reflect what lies in between the various contrasts of phenomenon and conception, reality and fiction, original and copy, past and present, through the lost original Golden Pavilion, the present Golden Pavilion as its replica, and an imaginary Golden Pavilion in which images of various buildings are superimposed. I am attempting to project what lies between them from various contrasts: phenomenon and idea, reality and fiction, original and copy, past and present.
Excerpts from the introduction of the works in his solo exhibition "hogehoge" at Gallery Muryo, Toyama, Japan.
This text was translated with DeepL.com.
