With the accelerating development of information and communication technology, human beings have been caught up in the vortex of excessive images, and have lost sight of their position and intention.

An absurd world-a world that is based on the flood of images and the principle of exchange of goodwill that is repeated every day. It is a world where human beings are exhausted, and in the cage of "security" brought about by censorship by technology. Is losing the denial that they should have.

According to Hegel, the condition of human is to be the subject of revolution. Revolution is when humans deny and rebel. However, in the face of absurd reality, the will of resistance is weakened and history will end.

In an absurd world, even if the act itself is absurd, I will continue to ask, as an artist, what human beings are, by magic, by rebellion. It is none other than finding or restoring the negativity that has been left behind. The negative effect Hegel says has not disappeared, but is suspended as useless negativity, or "nausea." The role that art plays is to ask the human subject through restoring such negativity and destroying it from the inside.

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Artist biography

Born in Ibaraki, Japan in 1992. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Design, 2018. Graduated from the master’s program in New Media at the Tokyo University of The Arts graduate school of Film and New Media,2020.

The production of okada Naoki is performed with reference to nausea as classical aesthetics and absurd literature such as Kafka and Camus.

Behind the expression is the overwhelming reality of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, and he is interested in how to deal with events beyond human understanding. Those are returned to themes with absurdity such as disasters, accidents, and coexistence with others.

His work traverses various media such as images, CG animation, technology, sculpture, dolls, etc., which are constructed to expose the absurdities of the human world as installations and confront viewers as absolute others. To do.

「REVERSE OBJECT」

In the relationship between model and simulation, all things lose their existence, and in the simulation procedure, the existence with all masses is like a mummy, the texture melts and the internal organs are taken out It is reduced to the body of the hollow. Once in the Renaissance paintings - “skepticism of St. Thomas”, as the person who tried to ascertain the real existence of Christ through contact with the inside of the body was drawn, we live in modern times that this absurd world It is asked how you can acquire the viewpoint of the real existence of the object in.

The behavior of objects with hollow bodies is handled by computation and destroys the “projet” to our target. They will give us a feeling of vomiting as a means of destruction that suddenly springs from the ground suddenly breaking reality.

It is a work made with 3DCG based on actual experience.
I used to have male and female hamsters, but for some reason I had a period when I could not be fed, and the male ate the female internal organs. But when I discovered it, I thought the female was just sleeping, and a few days passed. However, I thought that the situation was strange, and when I touched the female with chopsticks, it easily rotated and the contents became a hollow mummy. It means that we recognize the reality only on the surface, just as we see 3DCG images. It made me think about how we are not capturing the reality of the subject.

Exhibitions

”RAM PRACTICE 2020-Online Screening”（online screening, http://geidai-ram.jp/event/3601/ , 2020), Solo exhibition ”Pocky-chan” (art space kimura ASK ?, Kyobashi, 2020), ” MEDIA PRACTICE19-20” (Motomachi China Town School Building, Yokohama,2019), ” OPEN STUDIO”(Motomachi China Town School Building, Yokohama,2019), ”safety training” (BLOCKHOUSE, Harajuku, 2019), ”Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Production Exhibition” (tokyo unicersity of the Arts,Ueno,Tokyo,2018)

” Comité Colbert” (Tokyo University of the Arts University Museum, Ueno, 2017),

SXSW Product design ”STACHA ”(Austin, Texas,2017)