Journey

2021/6/3 - 6/19

本展では、『Mirrors』と『明滅する輪郭』の2つのシリーズの新作を発表。
『Mirrors』は、「土地と人の結びつき」というテーマのもと、国内外各地で土着の風習や祭りに関するフィールドワークに取り組む延長上に、2019年に発表した絵画シリーズです。それまで人間の営みの中から見出そうとしていたものを様々なサルの中に見つけたことをきっかけに、「サルの中にヒトをみて、ヒトの中にサルをみる」というリフレクションを描きます。今回は従来のキャンバス作品に加え、初めてのドローイング作品を発表。
『明滅する輪郭』は、日本とルーマニアの古写真に縫い付けられたビニール袋によって可視化された「呼吸」によって自己と他者を時空さえ超えて行き交う成分によるつながりを表す、2015年から継続的に取り組んでいるシリーズです。

－「Journey」ステートメント

移動すること
面と向かって誰かと出会い語り合うこと
現代を生きる人々の中に
これまで当たり前にあった行動が
特別なものになってから
一年が経とうとしている

直立二足歩行に伴い
森から草原
そして地球上各地への
人類史的な移動に始まり
現代にかけて
遠くまで早く移動するための技術が発展し
生まれた土地
そして地球さえも後にして
どこまでも遠くへと移動することが
人間にもたらしてきたものは何だったのだろう

Akio Nagasawa Gallery Aoyama is pleased to announce the opening of “Journey” an exhibition of works by Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai.

This time the artist will present her latest works from two series mirrors and Outline to flicker.

Mirrors is a series of paintings realized in 2019 as an extension of her fieldworks, regarding local customs and festivals in various parts of Japan and abroad, which goes under the same theme: 'the connection between the land and the people’. In the series the artist tries to bring to light the human activities she was looking for during her researches but that she ended up finding among monkeys, by painting the reflection of the concept 'I see human beings inside monkeys and monkeys inside human beings'.
Beside the artist's paintings, some of her drawings will be presented for the very first time.

Outline to Flicker is a series where the 'breath' visualized by the plastic bags sewn into old Japanese and Rumanian photographs represents the connection between the artists self and the others through other elements that go beyond time and space. It is a series the artist has been working on continuously since 2015.

– Artist's statement
On the occasion of this exhibition, I will present the works from the new series "Outline to flicker" and "Mirrors" will be presented. In "Outline to flicker" the 'breath' visualized by the plastic bags sewn into old Japanese and Rumanian photographs represents the connection between myself and the others through other elements that go beyond time and space. It is a series I have been working on continuously since 2015."Mirrors" is a series of paintings realized in 2019 as an extension of my fieldworks regarding local costums and festivals in various parts of Japan and abroad which goes under the same theme: 'the connection between the land and the people'. In this series I painted what I was trying to find in human activities but I found out among various monkeys: the reflection of the concept 'I see human beings inside monkeys and monkeys inside human beings'.