Seongsan Art Hall

Daisuke Kuroda, Ocean, 2023, single channel video, color, sound, 8min 46sec
Daisuke Kuroda, Practices for Yoshitatsu, 2023, two-channel video, color, sound, 10min 21sec
Daisuke Kuroda, Practices for Horiuchi, 2023, two-channel video, color, sound, 9min 7sec
Daisuke Kuroda, Practices for Bourdelle, 2023, two-channel video, color, sound, 8min 8sec
Daisuke Kuroda, Practices for Electricians(for Atsuko Tanaka), 2023, two-channel video, color, sound, 8min 53sec
Daisuke Kuroda, Practices for Taimu, 2024, two-channel video, color, sound, 6min 57sec

Commissioned by the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024

Working from a geographical base, Daisuke Kuroda explores specific events. Having shared his thoughts on the medium of sculpture by referencing the lives of modern Japanese sculptors, Kuroda invokes some of the sculptors he has been studying in this work. The animals that appear in the video, such as rabbits and crows, are metaphors for various sculptural subjects who have served as references for the artist, such as Taimu Tatehata, teacher and mentor to sculptor Kim Chong Yung. In monologues or dialogues, these figures talk about the events that surrounded them, the helplessness and also the will involved therein, and even succession, and self-realization. Animals are drawn with face paint directly onto someone’s face; the drawn animal’s mouth and the human mouth are superimposed, bringing the sculptor of the past into encounter with the sculptor of the present.