Alainistheonlyone is pleased to present a solo exhibition entitled ////// by Maiki Ogawa, who completed his post-graduate studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2014. Ogawa, sharply aware of the uncertain, indistinct, muddled qualities of himself is conscious of how because of this the more he tries an attempt at something, the more he loses sight of himself, ultimately becoming a missing person. This is a state he is aware of, and yet, along the way he comes to not even notice the fact that he is a missing person at all. Facing his work, is it in fact possible to observe only as perception without a perceiver?
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[作家コメント] If, for example, there were to be a more purposeful purpose or goal behind my actions or myself personally, I think it would be the act of losing.
I come to lose sight of myself personally due to the truths and results of my actions and ideas. I chase after the uncertain point that is myself. And, because I engage in this sort of practice I am without a doubt myself an uncertain point. Somewhere along the way I lose sight of myself, and my self loses sight of me. I realize that I am a missing person. I have gone missing from somewhere, and familiar landscapes look very unsettling. Then, I come to know that this unease is my only true friend. I simultaneously go missing from time; I am an anachronism in both the past and the future. I comprehend the utility of inertia and idleness, as when you lose track of time. And then because I am pursuing myself, I go missing from myself and simultaneously come to lose sight of myself. I come to feel myself to be more distant than all else (more than a stray dog, more than a cherished pup, more than a school of baby fish). And because of all this I know myself less than anyone. I make an effort to know myself. I make an effort to know myself,and this act leads even more to the end result of dropping me into a bottomless pit. And so, I know nothing of that which I would like to do. It may be the case that I don’t want to do anything at all. Or perhaps, what I want to do is to“ do” nothing at all, and there is also the possibility that I don’t want to do this at all. In any event, that which I have done serves almost in place of myself as a gesture that drives me along, lending me a hand in finding the pace with which to become smoke. What I can clearly say, however, is that eating, sleeping, loving and being loved, and horsing around are all things that are on the list of things I want to do. And, these things are beautifully brimming full of madness. That said, the everyday is not so astounding as to provoke a re-awareness or new consciousness of things. But, the fragrance of the transparent steam of the black tea I drink in the morning is clearly not a tautology, and the human reproductive period is open year-round, and the old man next door is again today fishing in a tub without actually trying to catch anything. I love the absurd phenomena of daily life. I think that rather than the astounding, exciting, high-volume unceasing wail of music, my heart is drawn more to the universal and absurd and exciting everyday where the wailing has ceased. In this way, because of this, I am breathing. Breathing is a very unconscious thing, such that even if I lose sight of myself and I am myself a missing person, I don’t forget how to breathe. This is because I am myself and this is the way I am a missing person, so I get the feeling that breathing alone is sufficient.
[作家プロフィール] Maiki Ogawa 2014 M.F.A. in Mural Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions 2014/7 “I Don’t Know What My Work Is.”, Space Wunderkammer, Tokyo 2013/9 “//////”, Turner Gallery, Tokyo
Group Shows 2013/11 “The Real Rio”, Gallery Barco, Tokyo 2013/3 “ ANTE TUMOR”, 3331 B104, Tokyo 2012/10 “TRANS ARTS TOKYO”, Former Tokyo Denki University Building 11, Tokyo 2012/7 “ 1/50”, Turner Gallery, Tokyo 2010/6 “OXYMORON”, 2nd Floor Castle Exhibition Space located within the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
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会期:Thursday, September 18 ‒ Saturday, October 18, 2014 時間:11:00 - 19:00 Closed on Sunday, Monday and national holidays 会場:Alainistheonlyone
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