竹内みか

Takeuchi Mika

神戸市在住。
大阪芸術大学短期大学部デザイン美術学科卒業。
広告代理店勤務のグラフィックデザイナーを経て、2010年より制作活動をはじめる。


描かれているのはメロディペットと呼ばれる動物型遊具。遊園地にある乗り物だが、そこに人の姿はない。
近年、娯楽の多様化や少子化によって古い遊園地が軒並み閉鎖され、メロディペットも稀少な存在となった。
動物たちの使い古された毛並みや愛嬌のある表情からは、可愛らしさだけでなく、退廃する物の切なさや狂気があり、生きている様な錯覚すらおぼえる。
利便性や経済を優先して発展し続ける現代社会に奇跡的に現存しているメロディペット。
昭和の時代に作られ、今も遊園地の片隅でゆっくりと歩く彼らが「消費社会」や「豊かさ」について問いかける。

Based in Kobe, Japan.
Graduated from Osaka University of the Arts Junior College.
In 2010, after working in advertising agency as a designer, she started to concentrate creative activities.
Her recent motifs are animal playground equipment called Melody pet.
She is visiting amusement parks all around in Japan to see Melody pets, expresses it through paintings, installations and performances.


The Melody Pets, covered in stuffed animals, are the park's rides, but there are no people there now. It used to entertain people.
In recent years, as old amusement parks have been closed down due to the diversification of entertainment and the declining birth rate, the Melody Pets have become a rarity. The used fur and charming expressions of the stuffed animal vehicles are not only cute, but also convey the sense of melancholy and madness of decadence, and even the illusion that they are still alive. Most of the melody pets that miraculously exist in today's society, which continues to develop with priority on convenience and economy, were created decades ago.
The Melody Pets still walk slowly in a corner of the amusement park, asking questions about "consumer society" and "a sense of affluence."