Black Waves in Layered Ultrasubjective Space

teamLab, 2023, Digital Installation, Continuous Loop, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Black Waves in Layered Ultrasubjective Space

teamLab, 2023, Digital Installation, Continuous Loop, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

All oceans are connected to each other, and so are all the waves in this world.

In classical East Asian art, waves are often expressed using a combination of lines. These waves created by lines allow us to realize that each wave is one part of a larger flow, and conveys life as though the waves are a living entity.

When the waves rise, we can feel a powerful breath of life, as though life is blooming. It feels as though each wave has a life of its own. But when the waves collapse and disappear, we realize, with a sense of fragility, that they were a part of the ocean. And that ocean is connected to all of the other oceans. In other words, all of the waves in the world are connected to each other.
The waves seem alive because life is like a rising wave. It is a miraculous phenomenon that continuously emerges from a single, continuous ocean.

Multiple screens are positioned in the exhibition space and in the same positional relationship as the screens, multiple viewpoints are placed in the artwork world and cut out through Ultrasubjective Space.
These cut out spaces are then placed onto the screens. Ultrasubjective Space allows the space around multiple viewpoints to be cut and rearranged together so that the space of the artwork world is layered in the exhibition space.

When someone sees another person covered by the waves, that person appears as though they themself exist in the same artwork world of the waves. A person seen across the screens will become one not only with the exhibition space, but with the artwork world as well.