Aya Kurashiki Solo Exhibition
Shallow - Return to Nature in the Real World
July 22nd – August 27th, 2022
OPENING : Friday, July 22nd from 4pm to 7pm
Wada Garou Tokyo is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Aya Kurashiki to open on Friday, July 22nd. This new exhibition features “Grave” series.
<Grave Series>
The works in this series consist of several photographs that are digitally combined and transferred onto a support. Through this process, the layered photographs lose their representational qualities. The abstracted image appears as one whole, but it contains individual photographs that are intimately connected to the artist. A contradictory situation arises: 'The individual is a whole combined with the other, but at the same time, each whole is also an individual.' The person who lies in the grave becomes part of the land, and the grave becomes part of the space for those who have no relationship to the deceased. Kurashiki sees this as another phenomenon in which "the individual is a whole combined with others, but at the same time each whole is also an individual". The photographs used in <Grave> are all photographed from Kurashiki's own point of view. If photos are defined as "capturing a moment", then this work is layered with Kurashiki's own time. Therefore, the layered images become Kurashiki's tomb. Although a grave is just an object from a third party's point of view, from the point of view of a person who had a relationship with the deceased, it becomes tied to memories and history, and the deceased's presence can be found in it.
Kurashiki was born in 1993 in Hyogo, Japan. In Kurashiki's work, she consistently focuses on the theme of "the physical barrier of one's own body and the distance between oneself and others that cannot be crossed". In this series, which uses photographs taken through Kurashiki's own eyes, the works do not just exist, but seem to contain many poetic elements, as if they are personal and tell a story.
【Information】
Aya Kurashiki Solo Exhibition
Shallow - Return to Nature in the Real World
July 22nd – August 27th, 2022
Wada Garou Tokyo
OPEN：Tuesday - Saturday 13:00 - 18:30
Closed on Sunday, Monday and National Holidays
Tel/Fax: 03-6263-2404
Email：info@wadagarou.com
3F 3-5-16, Ginza , Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
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OPEN：Tuesday - Saturday 13:00 - 18:30
Closed on Sunday, Monday and National Holidays
Tel/Fax: 03-6263-2404
Email：info@wadagarou.com
3F 3-5-16, Ginza , Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
★Map