2022 Daisaku Ozu Logistics/Rotations

This is a large-scale video installation outside the east exit of Kamata Station.

Daisaku Ozu Logistics／Rotations

From Kamata to Haneda, the side line of Haneda Air Base continued across the sea.Now again, an attempt to depict endless rotation in the city.

Daisaku Ozu

This work is a new installation by Daisaku Ozu, an artist who continues to recapture human activities through light and shadow, centering on photography. This work is a follow-up to 2019's "Unfinished Spiral" and 2022's "Loop Line", and is based on the historical record of the lead-in line.

The stage is Kamata (Ota Ward) after the war, and the route of the railroad that once ran through the city.In the early Showa period, Kamata, which had greatly developed the local economy by doubling the number of town factories and workers, was destroyed by air raids during the war, and about 8% of the area was reduced to burnt fields, and the war ended.In March 21, a freight line was constructed around the east exit of present-day Kamata Station, running from Kamata Station on the Ministry of Railways (currently JR) to Kamata Station on Keihin (currently Keikyu) as a transportation route for construction materials for Haneda Airport expansion construction work. Construction progressed.On many days, as many as 3 vehicles ran through the town of Kamata on the tracks completed the following year, carrying materials, supplies, and soldiers from the Atsugi U.S. Army gravel quarry to Haneda Air Base. increase.This work traces the traces that continue to connect the two Kamata stations to the memories of those who came and went on the railroad tracks.Please take a look.

This exhibition is part of the OTA Art Project, which aims to revitalize the region by creating art together with the various cultural resources of Ota Ward.In the contemporary art section "Machinie Wokaku", we are trying to create a new landscape by planting art in the city of Ota City.

Outline of the event

• Date: September 4th (Friday) to October 9th (Monday/holiday), 30
• Time: 18:30-21:00 *Open every day during the exhibition, some days may be canceled due to weather
• Venue: Around the East Exit of JR/Tokyu Kamata Station
• Admission fee: Free

Writer profile

Ozu Daisaku (artist)

With photography at the core, he continues to recapture human activities through light and shadow.Created works such as "Sequence of Light," which scoops up the light and shadows that blur through the windows of trains, etc., and "Loop Line," which reflects the present on a loop line that continues to rotate endlessly.Major productions in recent years include “Rokko Meets Art Art Walk 2022” (Rokkosan Art Center, Hyogo, 2022/ongoing), “Daisaku Ozu Loop Line” (eitoeiko, Tokyo, 2022/solo exhibition), “Daisaku Ozu Unfinished Spiral (Former Museum Dobutsuen Station, Keisei Electric Railway, Tokyo, 2019/solo exhibition), “Glasses and Traveling Art Exhibition” (Aomori Museum of Art/Shimane Prefectural Iwami Art Museum/Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Aomori/Shimane/Shizuoka, 2018–19), "Aichi Triennale x Art Lab Aichi site & art 02 From the Window" (Art Lab Aichi, Aichi, 2018), "Photo + Train = Movie Ichikawadaira Daisaku Ozu Shunzo Seo" (Kamata_Soko, Tokyo, 2017) While waiting” (Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, 2012–13).

Unfinished Spiral (2019)

L/0 (2020)

Loop Line (2022)

Sponsorship

(Public interest incorporated foundation) Ota Ward Cultural Promotion Association
Ota

Sponsorship

Ota Tourism Association

Special cooperation

Taira Ichikawa

Equipment cooperation

Canon Inc

Venue cooperation

NTT East
Citta Entertainment Co., Ltd.
Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company
Meiji Yasuda Building Management Co., Ltd.
Rex Co., Ltd.
Toshie Tsukimura

Shooting/coverage cooperation

At Kamata Co., Ltd.
Kamata East Exit Shopping District Commercial Cooperative
Seki Ironworks Co., Ltd.
SKIP CITY Sainokuni Visual Plaza
Tamiya Sokichi

Provision of video materials

National Archives of Japan

Public relations cooperation

Keikyu Corporation
TOKYU RAILWAYS Co., Ltd.