Wall of the Sea

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Wall of the Sea

Artist Takashi Ishida (Japanese, born 1972)

Date2007

DimensionsW: 5.4 cm; Diam.: 4 cm.

Medium3 channel HD video (sound)

ClassificationTime-Based Media

Credit LineGift of The Georgia Welles Apollo Society

Object number

2013.41

Not on View

DescriptionIn this installation, three different images—which were shot in the same room—are projected by three projectors. One projection is the various retakes of images of the sea. The other two images are the painting animations, which is expanded onto the room. A sound of an old-school projector and music works on water by Morris Label can also be heard throughout the video

Label TextThree videos of images of the actual sea and images of Takashi Ishida’s painting of the sea are simultaneously projected in the artist’s Wall of the Sea. Ishida presents his process and progress on the painting non-linearly as it is produced on the wall and floor of a gallery. The process is also presented through stop-motion animation (a labor-intensive process where every small movement is individually photographed). He removes the limitations of traditional film by having his work “[flow] outside of its framework—collapsing the boundaries between film, painting, performance, and sculpture as the moving image is realized in space.” The characteristic clicking and whirring sound of an old-school projector further emphasizes both the literal wall of the gallery on which the images are projected and the projected “wall of the sea.”Published ReferencesIshida Takashi and Geneaology of Abstract Animation,, Tokyo-to Shashin Bijutsukan, 2009, repr. (col.) p. 75.Exhibition HistoryYokohama, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Views of Water: from Manet and Taikan to the Present, April 21-July 1, 2007.

Oberhausen, Germany, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 2008.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Okamura, Keiko. Translated by Miller Wakut. The Exuberant Image: Ishida Takashi and the Genealogy of Abstract Animation.

See also Matsunaga, Shintaro. Translated by Kazuko Morohashi. Takashi Ishida,” 2007, Aurora.