ユジンから「展示がしたい」とメールがあり、「よし、しよう」と話し盛り上がったのが一昨年、
そして展覧会の開催年だった去年、COVID-19蔓延に伴い営業を自粛したため、今年に延期しました。
このままでは心が自分からいなくなってしまう、と、何か新しいことに目を向けるため以前よりも
繊細に過ごしてみたり。
あの人はこんな時をどう過ごしているだろう。話しかけてもいいんだろうか、でも何を。
何を共有すればいいんだっけ。今の触れ合えない感じも、穏やかで結構いいのかもな。とか考えたり。
そんな生活の中でユジンのTwitterをふと見ると、陶器の破片を集めていました。
私が「そういうのいいよね、私も好き。私も川でよく拾う」と言うと「私も毎日川に行ってる」と返信があり。
なんだか、元々すでにそこにあったものへの愛着やまなざしを、実はみんな継続して大事に持ち続けていたんだな。
と、何も変わっても失ってもいなかったことに少しほっとしたりしました。
すでにそこにあったそれぞれの感覚、作品、人、時間、空気を またじっくり見てみようと。
今年。一緒に、よろしくお願いいたします。
(企画:内田百合香)
Introduction by Yu Jen
In late 2019, I talked with Minami and Yurika of Gallery Towed, which found by artists in Tokyo, maybe we can have an group show with our friends. And the show was postponed because of the pandemic.
Our works look at small things and ordinal landscape of everyday life.
Nakamura Megu’s sculpture works is by waved. The colourful thread resembles rainbow which follow by a typical Kyoto afternoon shower, the short live of rainbow been ignored by rush city dwellers. People also forgot the old stories that rainbow is the map to another world, Megu reminds us again.
Minami Haraguchi likes a historian, she records the city vibes, sounds, light, and weather by painting blocks of splendid colours. The writing of lines and rhythms are from insects’ vision to house plants, blossoms in a vessel and a bowl of fruit inside a house. Who knows, maybe birds and whales share the same view. Her files of history are piled up and turn into kid’s toy clay.
Yu Jen enjoy the shadow in streets. One sunny day, he found out that everyone put away their umbrellas. Only the umbrella itself collects all the shadow and been left at the corner. Two green faces from an apartment, looks through the window to the street below.
In this unusual time, many families are apart and love ones are been separated. Speedy cities shut down again. There are less air planes in the air. We hope our works have reflected what happen here and now. Slowly and persistently we make art work, exhibit here and there, and perhaps enjoy the loneliness as an human being, walk on our own ways.