TOMODACHI | Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group

--- Project Index: BENTEN 2024BENTEN 2024 2024
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: 2007
This work is made based on a suicide note written by an otaku [nerd] boy of the same generation as the group members that Chim↑Pom found in Aokigahara – a sea of trees located at the base of Mt. Fuji which is well-known as a suicide spot – during the making of another work Wood Actor (2007). Te perfect scenery of the site of his suicide, absurd expressions, and his positive words dashed out in the suicide note. Shocked and lost for words, Chim↑Pom came to a conclusion that the incident could not be expressed through the theory of art, no matter how much discussion they made to develop it into a work. Consequently, they exhibited the tableau in the gallery space almost as it was, where they made a tiny white doll as expression of their “ambiguous feelings” and put it upon the noose that he supposedly used for hanging himself. Chim↑Pom gave the title TOMODACHI (Friend) to all these objects and the whole series of events. However, his body was never found at the site and the truth of his suicide remains unclear. 2007
This work is made based on a suicide note written by an otaku [nerd] boy of the same generation as the group members that Chim↑Pom found in Aokigahara – a sea of trees located at the base of Mt. Fuji which is well-known as a suicide spot – during the making of another work Wood Actor (2007). Te perfect scenery of the site of his suicide, absurd expressions, and his positive words dashed out in the suicide note. Shocked and lost for words, Chim↑Pom came to a conclusion that the incident could not be expressed through the theory of art, no matter how much discussion they made to develop it into a work. Consequently, they exhibited the tableau in the gallery space almost as it was, where they made a tiny white doll as expression of their “ambiguous feelings” and put it upon the noose that he supposedly used for hanging himself. Chim↑Pom gave the title TOMODACHI (Friend) to all these objects and the whole series of events. However, his body was never found at the site and the truth of his suicide remains unclear.

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Photo

TOMODACHI(Friend)
2007
Wood, plastic rope, saber, polyester putty, etc.
photo: Koji Tada
Courtesy of the artist and MUJIN-TO ProductionTOMODACHI(Friend)
2007
Wood, plastic rope, saber, polyester putty, etc.
photo: Koji Tada
Courtesy of the artist and MUJIN-TO Production
TOMODACHI(Friend)
2007
Wood, plastic rope, saber, polyester putty, etc.
photo: Koji Tada
Courtesy of the artist and MUJIN-TO ProductionTOMODACHI(Friend)
2007
Wood, plastic rope, saber, polyester putty, etc.
photo: Koji Tada
Courtesy of the artist and MUJIN-TO Production