Shibuya
Shibuya is not only the most famous pedestrian crossing in the world. Shibuya is neighbourhood, noise, trend, chaos, entertainment, advertising and people.
The iconic Tokyo intersection is made up of synchronised pedestrian crossings, which means that every time the traffic lights open a human tide invades the asphalt, turning the place into the largest footbridge of people in existence.
An acrobatic performance worthy of being seen and experienced first hand.
Shibuya starts here.
Regina + Japan
Entertainment, movement, environment.
Regina promotes her origins through her landscapes with repeated elements found in most of her works: roads, flowers, leaves, trees, forests, letters and houses.
Travel is her source of inspiration: from Japan she recalls striking images that she captured with her camera and that help her to capture the visions of a particular moment.
Japan provided her with a visual and experimental richness that has allowed her to develop an enduring interpretation of this culture.
Regina has had the chance to exhibit at Dos Sibaris Gallery, Nishinomiya (Japan).
Aims
Through an urban planning project we aim to improve the social environment of the city and the interrelationship between its inhabitants, responding to urban needs: art, protection, rest, silence and meditation in the midst of a disturbing world.
We bring the world’s most emblematic crossroads as an outdoor, adaptable, mutable and itinerant sideboard sharing unique experiences.
We want to move and live SHIBUYA to other cities around the world.
Art & Architecture
The invisible line is achieved. They complete and complement each other. Regina with its stroke and life naturally illuminates the environment, gives the necessary peace in the chaos, brings nature to the city, reminds the fresh air, the colours of autumn, the smell of rain, how the water splashes on your back and feet when running, when you are hypnotised by the umbrella of a Gueisha, the beauty and human warmth, forces you without wanting to stop in the midst of so much noise, to listen to the disturbing silence.
The pedestrian crossings represent movement, order, continuity, infinity, an echo of Borges or Piranesi.
Art & Architecture
The invisible line is achieved. They complete and complement each other. Regina with its line and life naturally illuminates the surroundings, gives the necessary peace in the chaos, brings nature to the city, reminds you of the fresh air, the autumn colours, the smell of rain, how the water splashes on your back and feet when you run, when you are hypnotised by the umbrella of a Gueisha, the beauty and human warmth, forces you without wanting to stop in the midst of so much noise, to listen to the disturbing silence.
The pedestrian crossings represent movement, order, continuity, infinity, an echo of Borges or Piranesi.
Narrative
The Shibuya junction is presented: 4 corners at its highest point. The surroundings are blurred with reality. A symbol, an icon. A cross where art and spectator interact.
Indefinite Space
Transition between Interior and Exterior:
Possibility of beginning the experience of the installation from outside Macba.
In Japanese architecture this third ‘undefined’ space is a space in itself, it is called ‘engawa’ and a continuous interior/exterior space is achieved, freely flowing through art where we incorporate the temporal duration of the experience of the installation.
we incorporate the temporal duration of the aesthetic experience.
The visitor will choose to observe the spaces in the tori-niwa2 or inside urban buildings or machiyas. It is a space or border that mediates between intimacy and the vastness of the outside world.
outside world
Outdoor/ Street/ Movement/ Cityscape
The street, a vital stage, is born of the relationships established by the buildings and in turn the public space generated between them. It gains prominence as a place for social relations.
The spectator is a pedestrian in the work. The route will be through the crossroads, feeling as if you are in the middle of Shibuya. A
From the circulatory function, the road layout becomes an autonomous system in such a way that it begins to undergo a transformation.
begins to undergo a transformation.
Shibuya in nature
Video Art
The installation uses different visual and sound resources to recreate the SHIBUYA experience. Projections and photograms. Conceptually it will play with the shadows of the public mixed with real projections of the crossing in Tokyo.
Post-produced images that include Regina’s pictorial work in movement. Sound The colours of the paintings and videos will be accompanied by an immersive sound experience that reproduces the urban life of the place and the imaginary representation of a natural silence.
