SUPER RAT, 2006, video
SUPER RAT, 2006, video
SUPER RAT, 2011, video
SUPER RAT, 2011, video
SUPER RAT (diorama), 2008, 5 rats (stuffd after being caught in Shibuya), diorama of the town Shibuya, video, monitor, etc. 136×φ87cm, Photo: Umekawa Yoshimitsu, Courtesy of the Chim↑Pom Studio
SUPER RAT (diorama), 2008, 5 rats (stuffd after being caught in Shibuya), diorama of the town Shibuya, video, monitor, etc. 136×φ87cm, Photo: Umekawa Yoshimitsu, Courtesy of the Chim↑Pom Studio
SUPER RAT HAPPY SPRING, 2022, Stuffed rat, gold leaf, 22.5×9×11.5cm, Installation view: “Chim↑Pom: Happy Spring” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022), Photo by Kenji Morita, Courtesy of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
SUPER RAT HAPPY SPRING, 2022, Stuffed rat, gold leaf, 22.5×9×11.5cm, Installation view: “Chim↑Pom: Happy Spring” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022), Photo by Kenji Morita, Courtesy of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
SUPER RAT HAPPY SPRING, 2022, Stuffed rat, gold leaf, 22.5×9×11.5cm, Installation view: “Chim↑Pom: Happy Spring” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022), Photo by Kenji Morita, Courtesy of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
SUPER RAT HAPPY SPRING, 2022, Stuffed rat, gold leaf, 22.5×9×11.5cm, Installation view: “Chim↑Pom: Happy Spring” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022), Photo by Kenji Morita, Courtesy of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
SUPER RAT (2006 - )
video, stuffed rat

‘Super Rat’ is a nickname coined by pest controllers for a new breed of poison-immune rat proliferating explosively in urban areas. Chim↑Pom captured some of these Super Rats with a fishing net, had them taxidermied and painted yellow to resemble a popular character, and exhibited them alongside a video of their capture. As Super Rats rapidly evolved in the cities where they co-exist with people, they can be seen as a reflection of ourselves or a metaphor for Japanese people living in the midst of radioactive contamination.