In Tokyo, French designer Emmanuelle Moureaux creates an installation with numbers of 100 different shades of colors
French designer Emmanuelle Moureaux creates a new installation in the heart of Tokyo’s Green Springs district. Mirai, this is the title of the work, consists of 5 columns of 592 large figures. The columns, 4m high, are formed by 100 4-digit numbers, from 2020 to 2119. This choice is not accidental. Mirai, meaning ‘future’ in Japanese, represents the next 100 years in 100 different shades of colors.
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The columns that make up the installation are separate to allow children to go through the structure interacting with numbers and colors even from the inside. Moreover, the upper part of the sculpture is horizontally supported by white 4-digit numbers representing past years.
Emmanuelle Moureaux and “shikiri”, a new colorful design
Emmanuelle Moureaux is a French designer who has lived in Japan since 1996. In Tokyo she opened her practice, emmanuelle moureaux architecture + design. The traditional elements of Japanese architecture and the colors of local nature have influenced her design philosophy and led to the birth of “shikiri”. This Japanese word, literally meaning “to divide space using colors”, describes her way of designing spaces by using colors.
The “100 colors” project: installations to discover colors and new feelings
In 2013 Emmanuelle Moureaux started the “100 colors” project, a series of installations in 100 different colors. Among them is also Mirai, the installation with numbers recently realized in the heart of Tokyo’s emerging district of Green Springs. In her works, the designer explores the world of colors by using 100 different shades, inviting people to have physical and emotional experiences. According to Moureoux, each shade stirs an emotion, which is different for each person. A new emotion, which can turn their soul on or off, depending on the feelings provoked by the colors.
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