w#102
覆面パトカー / Masked Police Car JP
Acrylic difit photo
アクリルダイフィット加工の写真
292×391×20mm ed.9
2008
'Masked Police Car'
There are a lot of fabrications and forgeries in the world, and we live in the society that someone needs that. Even those who have to eliminate fabrications and forgeries need to have fabrications and forgeries. Unmarked police car is one of them. In Japan, it is called masked police car. It reminds that a masked professional wrestler hides his face and name.
The artwork is an attempt to materialize the same words. The unmasked identity is an ordinary vehicle. On the contrary, the artist has to produce 'mask' to disguise a general car as a police car.
OKAMOTO Mitsuhiro
English translation: KIBUKAWA Ei (eitoeiko)
w#96
覆面パトカー / Masked Police Car JP
Car-Cover
4410 X 1695 mm
2007
Exhibition view at Gallery Haneusagi , Kyoto 2008
w#98
覆面パトカー / Masked Police Car JP
Car-Cover work on a general car
2007
In front of CASO, Osaka, Japan
我々は、ウソやニセモノが溢れ、またそれらを必要とする社会を形成しています。
ウソやニセモノを社会から排除する役割のある者でもウソやニセモノを必要とします。
世界中に存在する覆面パトカーもその一つです。
ただ、この作品は「覆面パトカー」という言葉を物質化しただけのものですが、逆にその正体（覆面の中身）は普通車なのです。
