CONCEPT

子どもの頃より人に対する強い好奇心から

人物像を中心に描いています

 年齢を重ね、出会いや環境の変化の中で体験し吸収してきた日本特有の『サブカルチャー』『ギャル』『社会』を軸として独自の視点で現代人物像とその光と影を中心に、時には自らをも投影するかのように時代を記録、紡ぐように表現している

 

 

（私の作品の中に登場してくる彼女たちの多くは私でもありあなたでもあり私でもあなたでもない誰かでもあって限りなく人に近い魂をいれるうつわのようなアバター、かりそめの姿をイメージして描いています）

 

殆どの工程で油彩を使用しているのは油絵具ならではの重さや緩やかに乾いていく、呼吸をしているような特徴に『生』を見出しているからです

それらはアバターやかりそめの姿をイメージして描きながらも外からは見えない、中の『生々しさ』を油彩の重厚感に託しています

 

SNSや現実社会で私たちは代わり身のような本来の姿と違う顔や姿を使って誰かや何かと繋がっていることが当たり前になっています

そんな中で生まれる心の機微や光と影を敏感に捉えることで絵を通じて観る人は俯瞰するように現代人の表情を見つめることもできますそして絵の中にいる"誰か"や"自分"を

自由に行き来できるようなアートを目指しています

 

 

2024.08  佐々木　ゆか

 

 

 

Ever since childhood, I have had a strong curiosity about people, and I have focused on drawing portraits of people. As I have grown older and changed in my environment, I have experienced and absorbed the uniquely Japanese "subculture," "gal" and "society" in my own unique perspective, and I record and weave images of modern people and their light and shadow, sometimes even projecting myself into them.

 

 

Many of the women who appear in my work are me, you, or someone else who is neither me nor you. I draw them as avatars, temporary figures that are like vessels that hold souls that are as close to human as possible.

 

I use oil paints in most of the processes because I feel that they are "alive" in the weight and slow drying characteristics of oil paints, which are like breathing.

 

While drawing with the image of an avatar or temporary figure, I entrust the "rawness" inside, which cannot be seen from the outside, to the weight of oil paint.

 

In social media and society, it has become commonplace for us to connect with someone or something using a face or figure that is different from our true appearance, like a substitute. By sensitively capturing the subtleties of the heart and the light and shadow that arise in such a situation, the viewer can look at the expressions of modern people through the painting as if they were looking down on them. I aim to create art that allows you to freely move between "someone" and "yourself" in the painting.

 

2024.08 Sasaki Yuka

 

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