{"id":3339,"date":"2020-01-22T22:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rumikohagiwara.com\/english\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2026-03-15T21:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:38:29","slug":"i-want-to-be-a-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rumikohagiwara.com\/english\/archives\/3339","title":{"rendered":"I Want to Be a Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n2019\/2023

video installation
25 min. 11 sec.

a video screen installed under a shell logo hung from the ceiling, a motor to shake a lamp, a swinging shadow, music sheet and its stand, karaoke instruments such as maracas and tambourine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Installation View at Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL\/ Photo: Maarten Van Haaff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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still from the video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Upon hearing the story of how an ordinary Japanese seashell transformed into one of the most familiar commercial symbols in the world, I set out to retrace its journey. Central to my narrative of the shell is how it lost its shadow – as the logo became more modern it transformed from a shapely shell to a flat image. Ironically, when Japanese were learning Western painting techniques they added shadow and shading to their traditional flat images. Along the way, the <\/em>shell became my <\/em>shell, carrying my personal reflections on cultural (mis)translations as a Japanese person who has settled in the Netherlands. My confused and confusing attempts to return the shell\u2019s shadow, lost during the voyage of industrial design, speaks of our complicity in the capitalist world we live in and the futility of claiming fixed origins. (Text: Jolene Ong)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article about \"I want to be a shell\" in Kunstlicht Vol42, Nr 3\/4<\/a>\nAgnieszka Wodzi\u0144ska - SPILLS, CURRENTS, FLOWS: DISRUPTING THE HEGEMONY OF PETROCAPITALISM WITH WATER <\/a><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
— Installation view<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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karaoke performance – Singing part 3 Shell Dreams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
— Stills from the video<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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