森田智仁

［身体‐知覚‐行為］の交差域から、彫刻・平面・映像・身振りを横断して制作・実践する。層としての時間と身体性のリズムを背景に、素材や空間に潜む力学を読み替えながら、知覚の枠組みを揺さぶる表現を目指す。

Situated at the intersection of body, perception, and action, the artist moves fluidly across sculpture, painting, moving image, and gesture. Attentive to time as a layered condition and to the rhythms of embodiment, the practice reconfigures the forces latent within materials and spaces, probing the structures of perception and opening them to instability, displacement, and transformation.

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Concept For Accretions

Accretionとは、小さな作用の蓄積によって、ひとつの形が生成されていく過程を意味する。本作では、指の数を空間に関わる人の数に、押す時間を関係の蓄積に置き換え、複数の身体と時間によってひとつの場が形成されていく様子を表している。

画像の縦軸の、指の数が増えていく構成には、「空間に関わる人の数が増えていく」という意味を重ねたいと考えています。

一方、横軸の押す時間の長さ(Time)は、人と場所との関係が蓄積していく時間として捉えています。

人が増え、時間が重なるほど、形は少しずつ複雑に変化していく。単純に人数の多さを表すのではなく、関わる身体が増えることで、場に多層的な痕跡が生まれていくイメージです。

多様な人の働きかけによって更新され続けるオフィスの姿を、数と形の移り変わりとして可視化できればと思っています。

働く空間を考え続けるOkamuraだからこそ、この作品が「変化し続ける場」の象徴になればと考えています。

Accretion refers to the process by which a form gradually comes into being through the accumulation of small actions.

In this work, the number of fingers is translated into the number of people engaging with a space, while the duration of pressing represents the accumulation of relationships between people and place. The work visualizes how a singular space takes shape through the presence of multiple bodies and the passage of time.

Along the vertical axis, the increasing number of fingers signifies the growing number of people involved with the space. The horizontal axis, Time, represents the duration over which relationships between people and place accumulate.

As more people become involved and more time overlaps, the form gradually shifts and becomes increasingly complex. Rather than simply representing the number of people, the work evokes the emergence of layered traces within a place as different bodies leave their individual imprints upon it.

Through the changing relationship between number and form, the work seeks to visualize the continually evolving nature of an office—one that is constantly renewed through the actions and interactions of the people who inhabit it.

For Okamura, a company that has continually explored the nature of working environments, this work is conceived as a symbol of a place in constant transformation.