Solo Exhibition of YAMAGUCHI Miina, Juncus effusus ‘Spiralis’
3 - 19 Feb 2023
@GALLERY SCENA. by SHUKADO
日常を祝福するように、その場所や身の回りのものにドローイングをする山口みいな。作品と作品の境界線は曖昧で、自由にひろがる線やおおらかに表現されるかたちが軽やかに絡み合う。空間を自由自在に駆け巡る山口の作品世界を是非お楽しみいただきたい。
The title of the exhibition is derived from the scientific name of the corkscrew rush, which is distributed as an ornamental plant. Its characteristic spiraling stems resemble the lines that Yamaguchi draws and are symbolic of her drawings in that they transform daily life into something more desirable.
For this exhibition, art critic Mare Isakari has been invited as a guest curator to reconsider the “meaning” of the works from the perspective of “Well-Being” rather than “art historical context”. Yamaguchi’s drawings, which celebrate everyday life, suggest a positive relationship between the works and their purchasers that continues after the exhibition’s duration in a commercial gallery.
I draw lines every day.
I observe the lines coming out from myself through various media.
Once in a while I create works leaving traces as if traveling together with clothes compactly packed. I also create works that change in the flow of time using air.
I want to recognize the shape of myself that suddenly appears by continuing to keep things that come out from myself without being captured in the space.
I will keep communication with others through the activity of drawing lines, and to discover and explore the drawings that occur around me in my daily life.
パッキングドローイングシリーズは大きいドローイングを折りたたみ、透明のラミジップでパッキングし作品の1部だけを見せる。鑑賞者はドローイングの全貌を想像したり、続きを創造することもできる。この作品を持って帰った人しか作品の全部を見れない。
ドローイングの折り目を変えて違う部分を見せる事もでき、ラミジップはまるで額縁の様な存在にもなる。ストレージが限られたこの土地で物を作る上で、作品自身の形を変容させるということ。そして生活の中にひっそりと佇むことができるということ。それは自分の制作や人生においても大きなキーとなっている。
飾ってもいいし、持ち運んでもいいし、しまいこんでもいい。どこにいることだってできる。（山口みいな）
ISAKARI Mare Guest Curator
Born in 1990. He is specialized in art criticism and comparative art. Graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences, and finished the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He has written in exhibition pamphlets published by art galleries, and posted to art criticism magazines such as MAPPING (Contemporary Art Japan) and Arguments by Keita Saito. He has planned many exhibitions especially for TAV GALLERY, of which he is the assistant director.
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