Model for a Pedagogical Vehicle
2018
Powder-coated steel, castors, fabric, prints mounted on PVC, paper objects
300 x 350 x 465 cm
Model for a Pedagogical Vehicle is a sculpture reinterpreting four documentary photographs from the 1931 Seikatsu Kosei Tenrankai exhibition in Tokyo, which first introduced Bauhaus ideas to Japan by combining its educational principles with Japanese pedagogy and craft traditions. Created for bauhaus imaginista: Corresponding With, it connects historical Bauhaus teaching methods with Japanese modernism through contemporary forms. Four hinged steel frames on wheels display reproductions of Josef Albers' Bauhaus paper studies alongside the documentary photographs. The hollow shapes from these studies reappear as coloured silhouettes on the photographs, creating a visual dialogue between past and present. Six textile sculptures extend this dialogue into three dimensions, translating a diagram visible in the ceiling of one documentary photograph into physical form.
Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, 2018. Photo: Yuki Moriya
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2020. Photo: HKW