ARTIST:

Yuken Teruya

LVMH – Pink
Yuken Teruya
Golden Arch Parkway Mcdonald’s (Japanese)
Yuken Teruya
Golden Arch Parkway McDonald’s (blue tree)
Yuken Teruya
Yuken Teruya Golden Arch Parkway McDonald’s (Japanese)
Yuken Teruya
Stooping to encounter each work, the viewer is obliged to reimagine the nature of the receptacle: it’s changed from a passive to an active space. Each tree is painstakingly cut, its leaves and branches described with exceptional care, and each bag derives from a slightly different source (sometimes highend fashion boutiques, others Mc- Donald’s), which stages the tree’s connection to the natural world in divergent ways. At times, as in Golden Arch Parkway McDonald’s (Brown), the bag’s mellow ochre tones evoke autumnal shades; at others, such as LVMH Mark Jacobs, the black bag lends the tree a doomy and gothic aspect. Reversing the flow of industry from tree to paper, Teruya’s work has an environmental sensitivity that’s hard to miss. It’s also a poignant assertion of the role of the creative artist: as someone who finds meaning amid the morass of stuff we leave behind.
LVMH – Hennessy
Yuken Teruya
Golden Arch Parkway McDonalds (Yellow)
Yuken Teruya
Yuken Teruya Golden Arch Parkway McDonald’s (brown)
Yuken Teruya
The detritus of urban life has long provided material solutions for artists; in Yuken Teruya’s work, the discarded becomes the site of poetic transformation. Shopping bags – in some ways the emblematic item of rampant consumerism, one-use receptacles quickly ditched – are placed within the gallery at a ninety-degree angle, their ends to the wall, becoming peepholes for one viewer at a time. Their dark interiors are speckled with light from holes cut into the bag’s paper surface; the shape of the hole is that of a full-grown tree, so the bag becomes both stage (with its own lighting) and source of imagery.
LVMH – Louis Vuitton
Yuken Teruya
Forest Inc
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Sephora
Yuken Teruya
Text by Ben Street
LVMH – Berluti
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Christian Dior
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Givenchy
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Le Bon Marche
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Louis Vuitton
Yuken Teruya
Golden Arch Parkway McDonalds (Yellow)
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Sephora
Yuken Teruya
Golden Arch Parkway McDonald’s (brown)
Yuken Teruya
Golden Arch Parkway McDonalds (Red Yellow)
Yuken Teruya
Golden Arch Parkway MdDonald’s (blue tree)
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Berluti
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Christian Dior
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Marc Jacobs
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Chandon
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Hennessey
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Pucci
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Pucci
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Chandon
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Chandon
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Givenchy
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Marc Jacobs
Yuken Teruya
Golden Arch Parkway McDonalds (Red Yellow)
Yuken Teruya
LVMH – Le Bon Marche
Yuken Teruya
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