Rooted in an exploration of unity and continuity,SHIBUKI Tomohiro seeks to create new landscapes by building connections that transcend individuality. Through a wide range of media, including sculptures, costumes, and installations made from everyday objects and textiles like felt, he constantly questions how distinct entities can exist together.

His work is fundamentally inspired by the snowy landscapes of his native Hokkaido. To SHIBUKI, this is a primal scene where disparate elements, such as prominent signs, buildings, and traces of human activity, are uniformly covered in snow, allowing them to maintain their outlines while softly connecting to one another.

In recent years, he has focused on the act of wrapping and covering. By enveloping existing wrappers, such as clothing and packaging, in additional layers of felt, he attempts to blur differences and boundaries, transforming them into a relationship of equals. Felt, SHIBUKI ’s primary material, is composed of countless intertwined fibers. It serves as a symbol that quietly bridges the individual and the collective, as well as the interior and the exterior.

In a modern world where division and difference are emphasized and relationships are becoming increasingly thin, SHIBUKI Tomohiro uses textiles and the physical, tactile act of wrapping to reconnect us with others and the world around us.

澁木智宏は一体性や連続性の探究を根底に、個別性を越えたつながりを構築し新たな風景を立ち上げようとしている。具体的にはフェルトなどの繊維素材や身の回りのものを用いた立体・衣装・インスタレーション等多様な表現を通して、異なるもの同士がどのように共に在り得るのかを問い続けている。

制作の根底には故郷・北海道の雪景色があり、それは普段主張の強い看板や建築、人の営みといった異なる要素が雪で一様に覆われることで輪郭を保ちながらも緩やかにつながり合う状態であり、それが澁木にとっての原風景になっている。

近年は「包む／覆う」というあり方に着目し、衣服やパッケージといった既存の“包み”をさらにフェルトで覆うことで差異や境界を曖昧にし等価な関係へと変換を試みる。そもそも澁木が用いるフェルトは無数の繊維が絡まり合う素材で、個と全体、内と外を行き来しながらそれらを静かに接続していく象徴でもある。

このように澁木智宏は、分断や差異が強調され、関係性が希薄化する現代において、フェルトなどの繊維素材を用い、また「包む」という身体的で触覚的な行為を通じ、他者との、また世界の繋がりをあらためて結び直そうとしている。

Tomohiro Shibuki / 澁木智宏

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