re-BOT QUEST

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Recycling Arts 
Artist:Showk

re-BOT QUEST
Role-playing art "RE-BOT QUEST" is a hot topic in Japan.

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"Perfect" does not exist in this world, and the concepts of "perfection" and "imperfection" exist in a continuous state. What is ostensibly called imperfection is actually pleasure, and it drives away the feeling of discomfort that always follows when one aims at perfect usefulness; curiosity leads one off the beaten track. It will tell you about many side streets. To put things together, to be incomplete. This is the origin of "assemblage". It is a fractal and spectral "fragment" that captures art as the movement of life. In the world of art, there are only a handful of artists who represent true "original" works. The role of ``assemblage'' is to inform the audience of the truth by assembling the meanings contained in the ordinary ``fragments'' of life and projecting new ``fragments.''

Uneven parts and assemblies with imperfect material shapes can be freely moved and rearranged. By making full use of this property, many reBOTs with strange bodies were created. reBOT's body is of course strange, but it also has a humorous feel to it. Generally, many of showk's works seem to be consumed as ``childish'' and ``primitive,'' but this is not what the artist intended. There may be a slight deviation from that. If that is the case, Schork's strange physical reBOT symbolizes the legitimacy of imperfection. It was an ironic response to the concept of "perfection" by creating an object called reBOT that has no direct social utility.

Many reBOTs, which seek meaning in their very existence, have a form that differs greatly from that of a human, but because they contain body parts, it can be understood that they are imitations of humans. . Each body part is originally continuous, such as the head, trunk, and legs, and does not exist separately. In other words, the existence of each part is nothing but a division at the conceptual level. Therefore, when the ``whole image'' is dismantled and parts are placed in positions where they should not be, parts that should only exist on a conceptual level begin to appear as such. Precisely because it is something familiar, it appears as something eerie. It is difficult to capture the complex and ever-changing reality with just one representation. Showk called this double reality a "double image."