Still-Life (2019)
Koganechobazaar2019
photo by Ujin Matsuo
"Still-Life" is a series of paintings based on the image of 'a girl flowing in the river', which came to her in a sudden moment in her life in Koganecho. "where prostitution was illegal after the WWⅡ, but now that memory is fading.
The image of the girls floating in the river is painted on a transparent tablecloth.The images are reflected in the surface of the river water and, as human figures, leave the surface of the painting and drift down the river.At this moment, the girl/artwork as an object to be seen momentarily escapes the one-sided gaze, and at the same time returns from a singular image to an image with multiple layers.
Still-Life is a series of paintings based on the image of ``a girl flowing in the river'' that came to mind at a moment in life in Koganecho. In Koganecho, many women worked in the blue-light district after the war, but now their memories are fading. The image of girls floating in the river is painted on a transparent tablecloth. The image is reflected on the surface of the river, leaving the surface of the painting as a human figure and floating on the river. At this time, the girl/work as an object to be seen temporarily escapes from one-sided gaze, and at the same time, it returns from a single image to an image with multiple layers.
