[Exhibition] Warning – risk of high noise levels in this area

Opening Reception：16:00~18:00, Sunday, 26th, Feburary
Place：MADLAB 2F
Address : 1874, Matsudo, Matsudo-city, Chiba
Artist : Manuel Tayarani & Sarah Mohr
Admission : Free
Contact : touch@paradiserair.info

Statement:
Security precautions across the world are continually growing stricter in response to a seeming increase in the need for protection. They are expressed in the form of extensive control architectures as well as through small ritual protective mechanisms that seem to be integrated into everyday life, especially here in Japan.

How do people, especially in this country, deal with danger?
Is there also a need for greater security, particularly in the view of globally increasing anxieties regarding terrorism?
Do people fear everyday danger even more than they fear global threats?

Our observations, in the form of this installation, are based on the rituals and habits of ordinary Japanese life within the urban environment.
For strangers, fears are almost invisible in this everyday life – everything seems calm and orderly, and everything seems to be in its right place. For people from other cultures, Japan offers a feeling being one of the safest countries on earth.
However, there are significant contrasts found within everyday life in Japan – silence and reflection cross paths with immense volume, and work life is in contrast to pleasure and distraction.
Thus, the Pachinko Parlour became a research area for our work: the order of the outlying city is exposed here ‒ terror-like noise coupled with colorful lights and machine movements welcome you as you enter the space.

Is playing (or gambling) the possible answer to our fears?

This installation transfers our impressions and all the little stories into this historic building ‒ a place that is worth being saved from urban development and constantly exposed to the danger of social change.

Manuel Tayarani & Sarah Mohr – PARADISE AIR Art Residency 2017

Profile:
Manuel Tayarani
Manuel Tayarani’s works are mostly mixed-media collages including layers in different material combinations. The layers lean on today’s acceleration of time but also adress the structure of language or image fragments he finds in his environment, at the same time seemingly dissolving themselves.
These results are kept in still images showing his various impressions which merge into structural carpets.
His analog paintings and the digital excerpts show smooth moves shifting towards each other, a formal language without corners and with a few lines that he is establishing within his paintings.

Sarah Reva Mohr
The focus of Sarah Reva Mohr’s artworks is the ongoing search for as­sociative imagery which is placed within the context of abstract graphics. Providing an unusual look at topics such as the human body, move­ment, shape and language, various correspondences are combined within a visual language as a field reflecting the cultural aspects of her time. Gathering inspiration from foreign countries and habits within daily visual culture, she is discovering and reflecting specific location-dependent vocabulary in addition to an analytic attitude, all relevant parts form a dialogue within the medium. With a clear preference for minimalist use of color, the approach concentrates on giving as much room as possible to the shapes and ensuring a certain equality between all elements in the conceptional picture leaving it totally open for interpretation.