"True to the Body" Haruna Hirano January 2011, 1 - January 11, 2011
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: December 2011, 1 - January 11, 2011
Exhibitor:
Haruna Hirano (2nd year, Art and Design major)
There will be an exhibition and performance. Please feel free to drop by.
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Swoosh woosh….thud woosh woosh….stomp stomp. Swoosh woosh. Thud woosh.
The moment I heard the heartbeat-like sound reverberating in this completely white world, I thought, "This is getting tricky." In that frighteningly tense space, a girl with bandages wrapped around her eyes and the back of her head, wearing a loose white dress and perfectly bleached ballet shoes, stood alone, facing a solid white wall. She placed her small palms on the canvas hanging on the wall and stared intently at something with her hidden eyes.
White as far as the eye can see. White, white. White!
Even though it was an exhibition, there were no paintings to be seen anywhere. It sent chills down my spine, like getting lost and realizing that nothing I know is there anymore.
Do you have any hints?
The hand of this girl in white is tracing something on the canvas. She is searching. She suddenly turns her eyes to the canvas hanging next to her.
…..!
What a surprise! There are countless tiny holes in the pure white canvas. Even when you follow them with your eyes, the holes move in a bizarre way that is beyond human understanding.
But watching her made me feel like I should close my eyes too, and try to feel the shape of the holes with my fingertips. My eyelids now made my vision pitch black. The expression I saw through my sense of touch was almost 180 degrees different from what I saw with my eyes. Even though I knew that she was drawing an image projected behind her eyelids, I could hardly tell what it was I was touching, where I was on the screen, or what the overall shape and atmosphere was.
I felt like I had come to a difficult place and now I was lost in a maze.
When she opened her eyes, the surroundings looked divinely bright, and she continued to place her hands over her eyes through the bandages and make holes in the canvas.Here I woke up.
It was such a dreamlike time that I wanted to say,Like the universe behind our eyelids or the daphnia that appear to descend from the sky in the daytime, the human body does strange things that have nothing to do with the mind.
When this power and a trigger that affects the mind are put into the same flask, what a variety of reactions can be seen. By combining the monotone materials of pure white and pure black, she, who knows the secrets of magic, took me into a mysterious world and projected various colors and patterns in my mind like a kaleidoscope. (Mariko Tsuji)
