蓮沼千紘のインスタグラム(knitchihiro) - 9月14日 19時28分
Just, Being There.
It all started when I read “There is No Lid on the Sea” by Banana Yoshimoto. The book is about two girls in West Izu—Mari and Hajime-chan who recently has lost someone special trying to find a way to live truly as who they are. Since being influenced by the novel was the starting point, I initially thought to name the exhibition “There is No Lid on the Sea.” However, I heard the news that the book will be made into a film next year, so I decided not to.
I was also largely influenced by the collection of conversations “Art Does Not Lie” by the artist and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo, who can paint what is in front of him just as it is being there without having self-consciousness. After reading his conversations, I started to struggle with the questions rising inside me such as “What does it mean to knit something ‘Just, Being There.’?” or “If I got lid of self-consciousness, would my works still be fashion?” My answer was not fashion oriented or to “knit something basic and functional.” Eventually I came to the conclusion that “externalizing my brain can be done by knitting the images just as they sprang in my head.” One day I picked up the biannually published magazine called “SPECTATOR.” As I kept reading it, I was fascinated by the connections it had with what Yokoo was saying. More and more, something like philosophy was forming inside me with the concepts such as “accepting a thing as it is,” “being just as it is,” and “recognizing the meaning of thinking without an answer.” As a result, I finally knew that the purpose of having the exhibition now was to think “What does it mean to ‘Just, Being There.’?” It is actually quite strange, if you think about it. Normally the purpose of an exhibition is to present the finished piece, but my exhibition’s main theme is to think the process of arriving to that moment. ,,, #pressblog
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