Outline to flicker
Main Gallery Area Artist
Outline to flicker
Outline to flicker
Outline to flicker
Artist Information
©️Kotetsu Nakazato, ©️Be iNSPiReD!
Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai
1992 Born in Saitama
2016 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Oil Painting
2017 “INVISIBLE. in the Eye of the Double Spiral” world Heritage of Château de Chambord (Chambord France)
2018 “KUMA EXHIBITION 2018” SPIRAL (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 “Break Zenya - The Next Generation of Artists ~”Bunkamura Gallery(Tokyo,Japan)
2018 “The 5th Contemporary Art Foundation Award finalist exhibition” Hillside terrace（Tokyo,Japan）
2018 “Ascending Art Annual Vol.2 MATSURI, MATSURU” SPIRAL（Tokyo,Japan）
Photographs of unnamed people, gathered in two homelands: Japan and Romania.The idea of breath, visualized by sewn-on plastic bags, represents a component that comes and goes between one’s self and others.People who live far away whose faces you do not know, people who have already passed away, hateful people, dear companions—the likelihood of that component, which was once part of them, becoming a part of you through the breath you take right now is not 0%.This is a new piece in the “Outline to Flicker” series, produced in 2015.A boy playing on a tricycle, a bride, a mother and child, a father—in these people, living in different times and places, of differentethnicities, you can glimpse something you have in common emerging.
[Comment by Selector]
My first experience of the work of Ana Scripucariu-Ochiai was at her solo exhibition at the Bambinart Gallery. Hearing her explain her work, I was inspired by her use of old family photographs to explore the theme of her Romanian-Japanese background. The work she is showing this time is a new piece from her series “Outline to flicker” which she started in 2015. Plastic bags are sewn on the faces of anonymous people in order to visualize “breathing”. The first thing that jumps out at your eye is the frightening appearance, but beyond that I feel it expresses the border of the self and the other, and unfolds the essence of life without regard to nationality, time, the known and unknown, or even “species”. Perhaps when the plastic bags are removed something changes. This series of work encompasses such hopes that are yet to be visualized.