Manustructure is a work that depicts the structure of the production system itself by shining light on machines operating in a factory and casting their shadows onto a support.
2025/10
Production in manufacturing is inherently an engineering
endeavor that pursues efficiency and precision. Yet within it
lies an unconscious rhythm and order woven by the repetitive
movements of machines and the gestures of craftspeople—a
structured beauty.
Manustructure is a work that illuminates
machines operating in factories and casts their shadows onto a
support surface, thereby rendering visible the structure of the
production system itself. What is projected is not the physical
substance of the machines, but the silhouette of the apparatus
that continuously generates parts. The forms are abstracted, and
the concrete existence of machinery emerges as an aesthetic
structure—that is, as a system.
As an artist, NIINOMI has
proposed the concept of "System as Art," demonstrating an
attitude that beauty arises not from individual entities but
from relationships and structures. In this work, pictorial
composition and poetic rhythm are discovered within the complex,
non-human movements created by autonomously operating
machines.
Here, light serves as the medium that makes the system visible,
and shadow becomes its "product." By illuminating the repeated
act of manufacturing, what manifests is not function but beauty.
This work poses questions at the boundary between industry and
art, and represents an attempt to discover the structure of
beauty within the act of making itself.
supported by Yoshikawa Ironworks Co., Ltd.
製造業における生産は本来、効率と精度を追求する工学的営みである。しかしその内側には、機械の反復運動や職人の所作が織りなす無意識のリズムと秩序──構造化された美が潜んでいる。
《Manustructure》は、工場で稼働する機械に光を当て、その影を支持体へ落とすことで生産システムの構造そのものを描き出す作品である。映し出されるのは機械の実体ではなく、部品を生成し続ける装置のシルエット。形態は抽象化され、機械という具体的存在は美的構造体──すなわちシステムとして立ち現れる。
NIINOMIはアーティストとして "System as Art"
という概念を提唱し、個体ではなく関係性と構造こそが美を生むという態度を示してきた。本作では、自律的に稼働する機械がつくる複雑で非人間的な運動のなかに、絵画的構成や詩的リズムが見出される。
ここで光は、システムを可視化するメディウムであり、影はその「生成物」である。反復される製造行為に光を当てることで、機能ではなく美が現前する。本作は、産業と芸術の境界に問いを投げかけ、つくること自体のなかに美の構造を見出す試みである。
協力:吉川鐵工株式会社
Material: Aluminium frame, fabric, LED bulb



