"If the everyday is the realm of the unnoticed and overlooked, however, it might be asked just how we can attend to it? How do we drag the everyday into view?"

(Stephen Johnstone, The Everyday)

A recurring theme in my work involves curiosity in and observation of everyday life.
To make the everyday apparent, my work makes an absurd alteration to an object before putting it back into an everyday life situation.
My early works dealt with sculpture: using commonplace materials and suggesting alternative points of view within a social situation.
This involved materials such as apples/ chewing gum/ suit jacket, using trivial objects as materials to create surprises, shocks or simply imply narrative.
To further exploit the realm of the unnoticed and overlooked within the complexities of everyday life, my work has become more performative. 
The works are no longer purely sculptural. Influenced by Fluxus artists such as Yoko Ono and John Cage the materials I use now enter into exchanges, moving between places and people. 

My current work is shown as a video documenting a performative activity (based on role play with incongruously placed everyday material).
This work, informed by Martin Walde’s work who makes a condition for people to interact to his staging, combines video, performance, sculpture and installation. 
In creating my work, I intervene in a social structure with a performative activity, highlighting through a funny situation the otherwise everyday.

Due to the experimental /situational aspects of the work it is possible to gain different results at different times.
This has prompted a wider experimentation, taking the work to different European countries in different galleries.
The work becomes an interesting observation into the differences/ similarities of response to the same absurd situation in the everyday. 

--- Hideyuki Shoji ---