PUZZLE | Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group

--- Project Index: ナラッキーNa-Lucky 2023
DOBUROKGEOLLIDOBUROKGEOLLI 2022
いつのことだか思いだしてごらんいつのことだか思いだしてごらん 2022
改名Name Change 2022
くらいんぐみゅーじあむCrying Museum 2022
SUNSUN 2022
はい、こんにちは Hello There 2020
May, 2020, TokyoMay, 2020, Tokyo 2020
A Drunk PandemicA Drunk Pandemic 2019
にんげんレストランNingen restaurant 2018
道Street 2017-
The other side 2017
Scrap & Build 2 2017
Scrap & Build 2016
Don't Follow The Wind initiated by Chim↑Pom 2015-
堪え難きを耐え↑忍び難きを忍ぶ10th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION 2015
金三昧KANE-ZANMAI 2014-
パラドックスPARADOX 2014
LOVE IS OVER 2014
マッドエリイMAD ELLIE 2013-
GARBAGE 2012-
PAVILION 2012-
REAL TIMES 2011
パズルPUZZLE 2011,2014-
IMAGINEIMAGINE 2010
BLACK OF DEATH 2008,2013
広島HIROSHIMA 2008-
日本のアートは10年おくれている世界のアートは7,8年おくれているJAPANESE ART IS 10 YEARS BEHIND, AND ART OF THE WORLD IS 7 OR 8 YEARS BEHIND. 2008
友情か友喰いか友倒れかBecoming Friends, Eating Each Other or Falling Down Together 2008
TPA 2007
サンキューセレブプロジェクト・アイムボカンTHANK YOU CELEB PROJECT "I'M BOKAN" 2007
ともだちTOMODACHI 2007
オレオレORE-ORE 2007
エロキテルEROKITEL 2007-
スーパーラットSUPER RAT 2006-
BODY 2005-

--- Overview　open/close: 2014-
美術館やギャラリーの白い壁をパズルのピースの形にくり抜いて分解し、同じ形にくり抜いたさまざまな壁などと交換するプロジェクト。美術館の壁はまったく違う世界でアートとしての新たな役割を持ち、美術館には場所や歴史がまったく異なる多様なピースによるコラージュ壁画が登場する。交換する先で生きる人々との交流を収めたドキュメンタリービデオとともに展示する。 2014-
This is an ongoing project where jigsaw puzzle pieces are gouged from white walls of museums and galleries, in order to exchange them for identically shaped pieces from other walls in the ‘real world.’ Here, museum walls gain a new role as an art object in completely different environments, while a plethora of wall pieces from different origins form a collage mural in the museum. The process of the artists’ exchange with the local residents is documented in video and displayed alongside the collage.

--- Index　open/close: It's The Wall World 2014-
ピースが崩れた 2011
It's The Wall World 2014-
Broken peace(piece) 2011

--- It's The Wall WorldIt's The Wall World　open/close: The continuing and evolving project It’s the wall world initiated in 2014 was developed from the work Broken Peace (Piece). Chim↑Pom destroyed a gallery wall in the shape of jigsaw pieces in response to the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, that damaged exhibition spaces in museums and made artists feel art was powerless.

Chim↑Pom takes out jigsaw puzzle pieces from a gallery wall, the supposedly neutral space of white cube, and exchanges them with identically shaped pieces extracted from surfaces in the ‘real world.’ The exchanged white pieces are given new roles in situ by becoming part of the ‘real world’ and the extracted pieces are brought back to a white cube and assembled into a large-scale jigsaw mural to create a topography consisting of varied contexts, histories and memories. Growing larger by adding new layers of interpretation, Chim↑Pom aims to seek for a value of art and try to shorten the distance of white cube and ‘real world’.

The process of the artists’ exchange and interaction with locals are documented and presented on video.