Artist Introduction for KAG#2 in Berlin
[日本語→English]
先日の取材での別カット📷と以前Casieさんが書いてくださった英語の紹介文。こちらがドイツで掲示される予定です。（画像と以下の文章はKyoto Art Gallery さんのインスタ投稿より引用しています）写真の後半4枚が今回展示販売される予定の作品たちです。
Other shots 📷 from a recent interview and my introduction in English written by Casie’s writer 😀
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KAG#2
18-22 October 2023
@daszimmer48
Zossener Straße 48, 10961 Berlin
Opening hours
11:00-20:00
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Shiho Murofushi
@shiho_murofushi
I love the world filled with children's honest eyes and the joy of going straight for what they like. Even if adults can't quite understand it, they immerse themselves in the search for a stone of their favorite shape, sniffing a scented eraser forever, or opening and closing a box of treasures several times a day. It may be incomplete and unintelligible, but it is an irreplaceable and lovely world.
My supports are mainly made by tearing and randomly layering recycled paper. The naturally occurring wrinkles and bumps create countless beautiful shadows and shapes.
As I make the support, the things I want to paint come into mind one after another. What comes to mind are nameless scenes. It's almost like the feeling I had back in my childhood, when I always found pleasure in everyday life, when I suddenly started playing by myself, and when I felt that ordinary things were treasures.
I don't even waste time doing a rough sketch, so I start and keep painting. I don't think wrinkles and bumps are challenging to draw on, and I love crooked lines and accidental puddles of paint. I feel as if I have come a little closer to the soft heart of a child who does not mind the correct answers to questions but can enjoy the constraints instead. Then, suddenly, I realized that I had already completed my work.
We have become adults who are busy living our lives. And as we grow older, we have fewer and fewer opportunities to get in touch with our innermost feelings because of our jobs, age, and roles in society. Yet, if we could remember the moment when we loved our treasured trinkets that seemed insignificant to others, wouldn't we be able to go back in time to our honest selves when we were young? Of course, these memories might not be so lofty as to be directly meaningful in our lives. But by remembering and sharing these almost forgotten feelings, we may be able to connect with people warmly even though they are mere strangers to us, transcending titles, age, race, countries, and even cultures.
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