"Point of Contact #2", simply but, is an open, exaggerated switch. It is a device that is designed only to deliver the power from the electricity to light the lamp. The contact point creates a pale spark, incandescent lamps in conjunction with it blink, and it becomes physical proof that there is electrical "contact". The incandescent lamps are only working for the contact that sparks, and the contact that sparks is only to turn on the incandescent lamps. The point of the work is this extremely immediate physical existence, which just goes around and around. Tamura Satoru shows us how to face up to the reality in a conscious or perhaps unconscious manner.
Not everything in the society we live in exists to become something. It is only us, humans, who try hard to find reason to everything and crave them. Humans living in a capitalist society indiscriminately destroy nature in the name of development and growth, shut each other out and create conflicts based on a blind faith that does not recognize differences in race, religion, and society. These are all variations of human desires. The artist does not establish a goal or try to argue something when making a work of art. Nevertheless, his work enables us to reset the lenses through which we view the reality and society as well as reflect on ways of life that exist beyond worldly suffering.
