Gropup Show| Akiko Ando, Mitsuo Kim, Sen Takahashi, Sho Tatsuta | "Distant Everyday"
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Wednesday, October 05, 2022 ‒ Sunday, November 06, 2022

LEESAYA is pleased to announce that it will be holding "Distant Everyday", a group show by Akiko Ando, Mitsuo Kim, Sen Takahashi, and Sho Tatsuta, beginning on October 5 (Wed.), 2022.

Ever since LEESAYA opened its doors in October 2019, the world has seen a steady stream of momentous developments, including the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the coup d'état in Myanmar, the spread of the Black Lives Matter movement, climatic abnormalities in various regions, the still continuing war between Russia and Ukraine, worsening inflation… Come to think of it, has there been even one “ordinary” day in these last three years? We have somehow made it to the present in spite of being knocked about by extraordinary situations on a routine basis. When did an everyday this sensational become the norm? Things may have been this way from the start, and even bigger changes may be awaiting us down the road.

Under these circumstances, art and music can slow the pace of days of dizzying change while allowing us to retrace our steps and suggesting the possibility of altering our direction. It may be that we are singing songs, making paintings, and reconfirming where we now stand in order to endure the incredibly rapid flow.

Akiko Ando depicts her wishes for tranquility and modest everyday hopes through assiduously repeated renderings in mind-boggling detail. She states that she frees her heart when it feels something is beautiful, and that the related passage of time becomes a painting.

With his immigrant roots, Mitsuo Kim sheds light on the unavoidable isolation of the individual as well as the confrontation and discord deriving from contradictions and differences of thought in this age, when it is said that society has become more tolerant of diversity and people are free to achieve self-realization, regardless of their race or nationality.

Due to his experience of work in preserving and restoring sculptures, Sen Takahashi is keenly aware that an end comes to everything, and that his own work of artistic expression is no exception. While recognizing the uncertainty of existence, he faces the ends of things with a look that is not merely pessimistic.

Sho Tatsuta, a musician, has been traveling extensively within Japan since the pandemic made travel to other countries difficult. He has produced works that grew out of his encounters with various people and places in his travels. The audio pieces he composes in correspondence with the environment blend into people’s lives and sometimes induce change in them.

We hope that this exhibition will stir remembrance of the preciousness of our everyday life and prompt thought on the whereabouts of fulfillment, through the diverse perspectives animating the works of these four artists. Please come and see Distant Everyday, an exhibition celebrating the third anniversary of LEESAYA gallery!


グループショウ｜安藤晶子、金光男、髙橋銑、辰田翔
「遠い日常」

2022年10月05日（水） － 11月06日（日）

　2019年10月にLEESAYAが開廊して以降、世界では様々な出来事が目まぐるしく巻き起こりました。COVID-19によるパンデミックや、ミャンマーでのクーデター、Black Lives Matter運動、各地での異常気象や、現在も続くロシア・ウクライナ間での戦争、物価高騰…思えばこの3年間、「まともな日」が一日でもあったでしょうか。私たちは日常的な非常事態に傷つきながらもなんとか今日までやってきました。いつからこんなにも刺激的な日常が常態化したのでしょう。はじめからそうだったのかも知れませんし、この先にもっと大きな変化が待ち受けているのかも知れません。

　そんな状況下で芸術や音楽は、目まぐるしく変わる日々の速度を緩め、時には立ち戻り、方向を変える可能性を示唆します。とてつもなく早い流れを耐え抜くため、私たちは歌を歌い、絵を描き、現在地を確かめているのかも知れません。

　安藤晶子は気が遠くなるほどの細かな描写をひたすら繰り返すことで安寧への祈りと日々を紡ぐささやかな願いを描き出します。何かを美しいと感じる心を解放していった時間の過程が絵になっている、と彼女は話します。
　移民のルーツを持つ金光男は、社会の多様性に対する許容も進み人種や国籍を問わず人々が自由に自己実現をできるとされている時代に、個人が免れない孤立や矛盾、思想の違いによる対立と葛藤を浮き彫りにします。
　髙橋銑は彫刻作品の保存修復の経験からどんなものにでも終わりがあり、それは表現を行う自分自身も例外ではなく、存在の不確かさを認めながら悲観的だけではない眼差しで物事の終わりに対峙します。
　音楽家である辰田翔はコロナ禍で海外への渡航が難しくなった現状を受け、国内での移動を活発に行い、様々な人や場所に触れ作品制作を行って来ました。環境に合わせ音響作品を制作することで、人々の暮らしに溶け込み、時に変化をもたらします。

　4作家の作品に込められた多様な視点を通し、日常の尊さを思い出し、豊かさの在処について考えるきっかけになることを期待します。LEESAYA3周年記念展 遠い日常 を是非ともご高覧ください。