Artists Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi
A friend knowingly sent me this video from youtube. They've exhibited all over Europe.
I completely understood because, you know, I've been there. In summer 2000.
Just beginning
After two weeks, 2 hours a day
After 21 days, 2 hours a day
My project was about something completely different, and I must say, a bit more complex. But my hat is off to the two artists. I can't really say much about their cheeky video. My work, shown here was about connection, both to the land I found myself in and the artist, Janine Antoni, who had walked here before me. It was an ascetic reaction to a self indulgent atmosphere. It was about evidence, about tracing the paths of others, about redrawing discarded elements, about stating emphatically what is important to me. It was about path-making, making one's mark, but also understanding it shall eventually be displaced. This work was made in the last few weeks of the Skowhegan class of 2000.