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Mayumi Terada “Greenhouse Series: View from Someone Lying in Bed, Someone Else’s View from the Side”
Base Gallery
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Mayumi Terada
It has been 14 years since Mayumi Terada moved to New York, and she has been making miniature sculptures and shooting them for years. Her photography based on sculptural models fabricated out of wood, styrofoam, plaster and fabric represents the absence of a person who would have been there just until a while ago, and the following profound loneliness in between the real and imagined.
In her new series she has continued with the same process. In these works, however, we might find the slight shadow of a person who would be lying there, although no one is actually captured in the picture of the room, which is treated simply as an object to be photographed. The green plant outside the window is photographed as if viewed from below, and the scenery seems as if stared up from a sickbed with a thousand feelings in mind.
Instead of the absence of a person who just left and the desolation arisen from there, the low-lying viewpoint appeals to a deep isolation and the feeling of resignation in a person who would be lying there, knowing he/she is passing away eventually. Those new bodies of work are in pale green monochrome, and they somehow remind us of a land of clouds, as if we are passing between the both sides.
Terada’s most recent practice, “greenhouse,” explores the feelings and thoughts of her past works more profoundly. It indicates not only the desolation caused by someone’s absence, but also the fact that all people clear away from this world in the end, thereby generating the absence of oneself.
In her new series she has continued with the same process. In these works, however, we might find the slight shadow of a person who would be lying there, although no one is actually captured in the picture of the room, which is treated simply as an object to be photographed. The green plant outside the window is photographed as if viewed from below, and the scenery seems as if stared up from a sickbed with a thousand feelings in mind.
Instead of the absence of a person who just left and the desolation arisen from there, the low-lying viewpoint appeals to a deep isolation and the feeling of resignation in a person who would be lying there, knowing he/she is passing away eventually. Those new bodies of work are in pale green monochrome, and they somehow remind us of a land of clouds, as if we are passing between the both sides.
Terada’s most recent practice, “greenhouse,” explores the feelings and thoughts of her past works more profoundly. It indicates not only the desolation caused by someone’s absence, but also the fact that all people clear away from this world in the end, thereby generating the absence of oneself.
Schedule | Oct 13 (Tue) 2015-Nov 13 (Fri) 2015 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Oct 13 (Tue) 2015 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.basegallery.com/en/exhibit_terada15.html | ||||
| Venue | Base Gallery http://www.basegallery.com | ||||
| Location | 1F Koura Daiichi Bldg., 1-1-6, Nihombashi Kayabacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exits 7 or 8 at Kayabacho Station on the Tozai and Hibiya lines, 5 minute walk from exit D2 at Nihombashi Station on the Tozai or Toei Asakusa line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5623-6655 | ||||
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