• Jin Kurashige
  His Shadow Enwraps Me, 2006
  Courtesy the artist and Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
  

Jin Kurashige works primarily with video and installation, taking his inspiration from daily life and using fragments, images and feelings from his experiences. The resulting works often contemplate the complexity of life in the contemporary world. In a number of works, Kurashige has explored situations based upon games. In His Shadow Enwraps Me (2006), the fanatical quest to resolve the three-dimensional puzzle of a Rubik’s Cube becomes the subject of Kurashige’s lens. Sweat pouring from his brow and with unbroken concentration, a figure tosses and turns the cube, his constant tapping interrupted only momentarily as he drops the cube to the table to review it. Revolving, rotating, shifting, his intense energy and movement propels this form towards its resolution. Yet, the moment he completes the game and achieves the desired result, he breaks the cube again and starts all over, as if unable to pause and savour his success.

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