JP｜EN
GRAY ZONE
SWEET EMOTION (Tokyo, May 2010)
We often want to decide on which is right and which is wrongWe tend to think the right is right, the wrong is wrong, distinguishing everythingAs long as the right and the wrong deny each other, their conflict lasts forever.
When we can’t tell whether something is right or wrong, we say it’s in a “gray zone.”
It’s about “something in between, something which belongs to nowhere.”
When it’s not clear whether something is legal or illegal, we say it’s in the “gray zone” too. But I want to define the term as another realm where neither concreteness nor demarcation is found regarding two conflicting things.
Instead of being caught up in a question in front, what’s important is to think about the content of the question.As a painting is born amid the relationship between the background and the subject, and accompanied with infinite struggle between them,
The front and the back, day and night, the good and the bad, joy and sorrow, life and death – all exist only in pairs.If we are swayed by only one part, we miss something.
As Japan today finds itself in between the West and the East,When we have to live in a compound of various fetters,Aren’t there things that can be seen only in that realm of the gray, where colors are mixed ambiguously?
(April 2010)
This exhibition took place at a restaurant that was once in Nishi-Azabu called SWEET EMOTION. Stimulated by this space that was different from typical galleries, I was led to explore the idea that the world cannot be separated into black and white, and that sometimes the things we seek lurk in the gray zone that eludes easy categorization. The development of Japan into what we know it as today can be seen as a struggle between the East and the West. Treating this tension not as a hindrance, but instead as an opportunity to expand one’s horizon, I drew parallels to the perspectives I gained from living in a turbulent society filled with oppressive forces.
| 沼喰 (NUMAHAMI) 2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton 1399×1138mm Private Collection |
クエビコ (KUEBIKO)
2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton
160×227mm
Private Collection
骨と皮 (HONE TO KAWA)
2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton
410×319mm
Private Collectio
| all or nothing 2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton 140×182mm Private Collection |
Androgynous mind
2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton
242×336mm
Private Collection
| 原始の火 (GENSHI NO HI) 2009 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton 530x530mm Private Collection |
 渚 (NAGISA) 2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton 1303×970mm Private Collection |
染色体 (SENSYOKUTAI)
2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton
159×228mm
Private Collection
Half moon
2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton
230×156mm
Private Collection
| After 2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton 410×410mm Private Collection |
土蜘蛛 (TSUCHIGUMO)
2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton
500×607mm
Private Collection
| Australopithecus（猿図）・炎上する樹形(ENZU/ENJOU SURU JYUKEI) 2009 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton 1303×1620mm Private Collection |
| 白蛇 (SHIROHEBI) 2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton 157×231mm Private Collection |
三途 (SANZU)
2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton
160×230mm
Private Collection
| 賽 (SAI) 2009 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton 727×606mm Private Collection |
赤手 (AKATE)
2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton
160×230mm
Private Collection
火の雨 (HI NO AME)
2010 Acrylic and Carborundum on cotton
732×912mm
Private Collection