MANUS-CURE
1998
Emiko Kasahara
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This multiple work “MANUS-CURE” contains 1050 colors of real nail polish and also their names. As in a dictionary, the names are in alphabetical order, and like a color sample book, are put together with the color specimens.
The 30 pages of colors and also a drawing in theimage of the Virgin Mary’s hands, are installed in a polished metal box. At first, as you open the box you will see your own face as though you are about to start making-up.
The word manicure consists of two words, manus and cure which have there origines in latin. Manus means hand and according to Roman law, indicated the right of the husband over the wife. Because the hand is an indispensable part of the body when human beings create things, it became a symbol of power and authority. However, cure means care and healing. The word made from these two words, “MANUCURE” points to a kind of cosmetic, i.e. the paint for hand nails.
Among innumerable cosmetics on the market, the nail polish has the most brilliant and rich variation of colors, and each color has a different name. Food, landscape, emotions, sex… the sheer breadth of expression is beyond our imagination. Looking carefully at all of those colors and their names, we can notice the flexibility of the images and hence, the many kinds of desires and impulses of mankind.
Originally, the act of making-up was used as a means of becoming somebody else, and this act can be traced to ceremonial elements within anthropology. However, in modern times, under the global influence of materialism, the act of making-up shows an apparent capitalistic desire to increase our own commercial value.
The lasting images therefore that move in and out of these countless colors of changing nail polish may in fact be our own figures who are longing for the CURE.
Exhibitions: 1999 “Visions of The Body-Fashion or Invisible Corset”,The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan,
Also traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Collection: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Offering
2005-2014
Emiko Kasahara
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“Offering” refers to money offering, donation, contribution or charity. At a famous Italian church Emiko Kasahara saw by chance a beautiful object. When she looked at it more closely she was surprised to see that it was an offering box, and so it was the start of this project. When entering churches Kasahara began to observe the offering boxes. This lead to her visiting churches worldwide, and taking photographs of the offering boxes.
It goes without saying that the act of using oneセ不 own funds for others is based on one’s love for one’s neighbour. However, that is not only on an individual level but takes place within the space of the church, which means that in compensation for that deed, one could have peace after death and a ticket to heaven, or alternatively from now, the well-being of the rest of one’s life’s, and so it could be an act of entreating for some kind of security. As humankindセ不 universal sentiment it may well be a natural thing.
As a small device which accepts that individual deed the offering box , with the largest ever
religion, with two thousand years history, is spread throughout the world. That form is sculpted from exquisite stone or made into a metal box somewhat like a jukebox. Alternatively, it is not a box but is an opening made in a wall, or a bag or basket. The material and design vary according to the different origin of the Catholic , Protestant, and Eastern Churches, and whether in Europe, South America, Asia, Oceania, or Africa, as well as their climate, culture, traditions and customs. And occasionally their forms have a sexual connotation.
With the keyword “Offering” Emiko Kasahara has made the process of going around the world’s churches and collecting photographs, her project. The digital prints made this time are in a series of 60 entitled “Collection”, a series of four entitled “Colligation”, and a series of six entitled “Colony”.
“Collection” series
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In the “Collection” series the “Offering” utensils are classified as boxes, torsos, slits, baskets and plates. As a viewing format there are 25 photographs presented on each sheet. There are 60 sheets in total and 1,500 photos in total.
謚縲豕包シ壹ョ繧ク繧ソ繝ォ繝励Μ繝ウ繝
逕ィ縲邏呻シ喨-繝輔か繝医°縺阪◆
mediumシ嗔hotograph(digital print)
paper縲シ喨-photo Kakita
sheet sizeシ1195テ968mm
Collection #01 | Collection #02 | Collection #03 |
Collection #6 | Collection #7 | Collection #13 |
Collection #27 | Collection #33 | Collection #35 |
Collection #42 | Collection #57 | Collection #60 |
“Colligation” series
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In the “Colligation” series the “Offering” utensils have been photographed as a visual scene within the church.
謚縲豕包シ壹ョ繧ク繧ソ繝ォ繝励Μ繝ウ繝
逕ィ縲邏呻シ喨-繝輔か繝医°縺阪◆
mediumシ嗔hotograph(digital print)
paper縲シ喨-photo Kakita
editionシ8
“Colony” series
縲薫ffering縲阪ョ驕灘キ縺 縺昴%縺ォ縺繧倶ココ縲縺ィ蜈ア縺ォ謦ョ蠖ア縺輔l縺ヲ縺繧九す繝ェ繝シ繧コ縺ァ縺吶
In the “Colony” series the “Offering” utensils have been photographed with the people present.
謚縲豕包シ壹ョ繧ク繧ソ繝ォ繝励Μ繝ウ繝
逕ィ縲邏呻シ喨-繝輔か繝医°縺阪◆
mediumシ嗔hotograph(digital print)
paper縲シ喨-photo Kakita
image sizeシ428テ316mm sheet sizeシ448テ336mm
editionシ8
Colony #1 | Colony #2 | Colony #3 |
Colony #4 | Colony #5 | Colony #6 |