Taking in the blinking view of the water placed by the shore
With the opening of the country’s first railroad line between Shimbashi and Yokohama, semaphores were introduced to transmit signals by the tilting of the armbar. The origin of this signaling system can be traced back to a pre-telegraphic communication network called “optical telegraph,” which was used mainly in France in the 18th and 19th centuries. This system, in which information was transmitted by rotating a giant brace and identifying its shape through a telescope, had become obsolete by the time of Japan’s modernization, and was never introduced. Modeling my work on this “semaphore,” I constructed a device (which is an unrefined device involving assumptions, associations and inertia) related with the transmission of information.
🅕 “Mirai Tube” concourse outside the ticket gates of Minato Mirai Station on the Minato Mirai Line
3 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama
Muku KOBAYASHI
Born in 1992, Kobayashi builds objects for the purpose to speculate on alternative forms, observing the leaps, discord, and discomfort created through the intervention of physical devices and objects in response to specific issues and historical events. Recent solo exhibitions include “The damp appearance as if counting with a suu seems to be laying down to a suu enclosure before shattering as a swirling sound that is suu” (Gallery 16/Kyoto/2023), “When the tortoise stretches its front paws to the stone, as in Euyu of Nefus…” (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo/Tokyo/2022), “BankART Under35 2022” (BankART KAIKO/Yokohama/2022), and others.