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"SCUM" is the layer that forms on the surface when something is boiled or fermented. This foamy skin with a sponge-like form has thickness, and increases in volume while remaining without expression. The impression is just like that of uncontrolled cellular division. In its expanded form, the layer has no motifs and no symbolic elements (just like the irregular shape of a potato carries no significance). All that remains is "volume" from which all meaning has gone and no stories remain. This installation depicts how earlier "SCUM" works have broken, and new transformations are occurring.

Scum　2005
Photo: Jordi Pla

Scum#2　2006
Photo: Keizo Kioku

When a mixed polyurethane foam mist is blown onto motifs, fine cells cover the irregularities on their surfaces, dulling contours and textures. As each "villus" grows, the motif's individual characteristics disappear, significances and concepts fade, and the whole comes closer to becoming amorphous scum. "Villus" was exhibited in Ginza, Tokyo, and "Villus#2" in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Their environments were completely different, but the works were each exhibited so as to be arranged on a single axis.

Villus#2　2010
Photo: Nobutada Omote

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