TUJ Art Jiro Miura is a Japanese social sculptor based in Kanagawa. Miura grew up in the countryside surrounded by nature including his three years of living experience in Fiji and NZ. From high school through college, however, Miura attended school in the middle of Tokyo, where not a single insect existed. Miura was fascinated by the city’s instability and constant rhythm, he became a city wanderer. Tokyo’s landscape is changing rapidly, but the local character of the city is still alive and well. This organic city that is growing while maintaining a disorderly order is a source of support for me. I would like to bring a small sense of discomfort to the city through my intervention in such a place. The gap between Miura’s countryside experience and city life has developed critical observations on both sides of the society. Miura’s interest is more leaning toward the city than nature as his subjects are targeted to sociopolitical issues. Yet, Miura does not like to argue or find a solution to those problems but rather proposes one opinion of how society can be observed as a citizen.
Wall Portraits
This work is a rubbed transfer of a city wall onto A4 paper. This work was derived from the relationship between graffiti and walls. Instead of writing on the wall, I let the wall tell its own story by transferring it. What do the walls, which have been battered by the wind and rain and witnessed various scenes, reflect?
Yamanote Merry-Go-Round Project!
When you get on the Yamanote Line at the ticket gate of the Yamanote Line, you get off at an amusement park, thinking of the Yamanote Line as a merry-go-round. A postcard was handed out, telling you to go to the next attraction.
This work is a sculpture of human consciousness. The goal was to intrinsically change the thought process through text and to intervene visually through visual awareness.
Anniversary
This project was made for his grandmother after one year of her death. Miura and his family went to Disney Sea which was one of the memorial places we went to when she was alive to immerse in this memory. What makes this social sculpture is that it brings the notice of death to a place far from its concept.
