I’m pleased to announce my solo exhibition: "Love Series", hosted by AiRK Artist Residency, which I was a resident from May 1st to June 30th for the AiRK program in Kobe, Japan.

I grew up in a cinema theatre, like Toto from the film Cinema Paradiso, sitting on the high stool, peeking through the long, narrow window; watching my dad screen films from the projector. As the theatre was a family-oriented cinema, my dad would censor the love scenes in the projected movies and I, 6 years old at the time, assisted him to cut the films and glue them back together. During my artist residency in AiRK, in Kobe, Japan, over a breakfast conversation with an AiRK fellow artist resident about our fascination of films, I came to a discovery that now, 45 years later, I am bringing back those censored love scenes back to the light. These works begin as snapshots from love scenes that have stayed with me; moments of passion, of skin pressed to skin, of two bodies dissolving into one. I chose YUPO for its translucency, allowing me to explore what is revealed and what is hidden, much like skin holding memory: not permanently, not perfectly, but with a tenderness that refuses to let go. I am searching for that specific melting point where the boundary between two people gives way. What remains is a record of intimacy that is still fluid and unmistakably alive.

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Architect: Tadao Ando

 Rose Garden is widely regarded as one of the earliest significant works of Tadao Ando. Completed in 1977, it predates many of the projects that later made Ando internationally famous.

ナヴァ・ギダニアン＝カガン成果発表展
“Love Series”と題された本シリーズは、浮世絵や日本画が持つ独特の余白や人物間に存在する間（ま）、さらに版画の色彩や繊細な線のタッチなどの影響を受けて制作されています。

「二人の間の境界が崩れ去る、特定の融点」を探しているとカガンが語るように、半透明の支持体の上に繊細かつ柔らかな線で描かれる人物たちは、輪郭を滲ませながら、互いの境界を溶け合わせるかのように寄り添っています。流動的でありながらも生き生きとした親密さを捉えようとする作家の筆致を、どうぞご覧ください。

展覧会初日の6月27日夕刻には、アーティスト本人を囲んでのレセプションを開催します。作品の背景にある物語を直接聞くことができる貴重な機会です。どなたでもご参加いただけますので、お気軽にお立ち寄りください。みなさまのご来場をお待ちしております。