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Hiroyuki Oki 大木裕之
Mitsumetsutsuyumi (150307 MIX) 凝望之旅（150307 MIX）
2011–2015
Mitsumetsutsuyumi (150307 MIX) is a seven-minute digital video made by the Japanese artist Hiroyuki Oki between 2011 and 2015. The work comprises short clips captured around the world, brought into jarring juxtaposition. Some of the segments last no more than a second, while others—for example, snow landing on the artist’s hand, held just in front of the lens—unfold more slowly. The shaky camerawork and the corresponding cuts in audio add to Mitsumetsutsuyumi’s immediacy and disorienting effect.
The locations in Oki films are often shown either too quickly or too impressionistically to identify. Rather, the clips focus on people, often at close range, or discrete elements of the landscape. Footage taken in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, includes street life and snippets of conversation. Several arresting scenes present the destruction that followed the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima—a sharp contrast to the everyday moments in other clips. Jumping from place to place, context to context, Oki conveys the ambiguities of a globalised present while remaining grounded in a personal perspective.
The locations in Oki films are often shown either too quickly or too impressionistically to identify. Rather, the clips focus on people, often at close range, or discrete elements of the landscape. Footage taken in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, includes street life and snippets of conversation. Several arresting scenes present the destruction that followed the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima—a sharp contrast to the everyday moments in other clips. Jumping from place to place, context to context, Oki conveys the ambiguities of a globalised present while remaining grounded in a personal perspective.
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