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dolefullhouse
New Media

2007
276 x 84 in. (701.04 x 213.36 cm)

Tabaimo (Hyogo, Japan, 1975 – ) Primary

Object Type: New Media
Medium and Support: Single-channel video installation with sound on large panoramic screen
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Acquisitions Committee with additional funds provided by the Lipman Family Foundation.
Accession Number: 2017.07

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The House Imaginary (2018)

Tabaimo combines hand-drawn images that evoke traditional Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) with digital manipulation to offer a critical and complex view of contemporary Japanese society. In dolefullhouse, a doll house stands in for the Japanese body, which is invaded by bourgeois furnishings and octopus tentacles symbolizing Western culture. Disembodied hands systematically arrange rooms until invaded by the predatory cephalopod, triggering throbbing veins and a pulsing heartbeat. The hands grow restless, scratching themselves and the walls of the house, and upending its contents in the process. Eventually, a water leak turns into a flood, exposing the “guts” of the home—a heart, brain, and upper jaw—a metaphor for the complexities of maintaining Japanese identity in an increasingly global society.

Exhibition
The House Imaginary, April 20, 2018 – August 19, 2018, Second Floor North, Second Floor Central Skylight, and Third Floor South Galleries, San José Museum of Art.

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