TIME IN AIR, TIME IN PAPER by Sachiko Morita

フランス・アンジェを拠点とする日本人アーティスト、森田幸子による作品集。

作者は日々の生活の中で見つける自身の喜びや好奇心に非常に質実である。それを証明するかのように、彼女の眼差しは庭の土からフィルムカメラへ、そして水彩画紙へと移りゆく。

その制作プロセスはユニークである。イタリア製水彩画紙に刷毛で感光剤を塗布し、自らの印画紙を作ることから始まり、35mmフィルムカメラを使い自然光の中で撮影された写真を、アンティークの引き伸ばし機を使用して、印画紙に焼き付ける。その後、お湯と絵筆で影を描くように感光剤を細心に取り除く。

それゆえに、作品の特徴であるドローイングのような直感的な被写体の輪郭には、瞬間的な時を捉える写真的側面と、線や影を定義しながら時間を経て完成させる絵画的側面とのふたつの表情が垣間見える。本作では、そのふたつの側面を意識し、20年以上に亘る51作品を再編、水彩画紙に存在する作者の素朴な時の流れを捉えることを試みた。「現実と過ぎ去る時間」を作品からは強く感じるが、その独特ともいえる時の流れに記憶を巡らすことで、視覚に加え、感覚によって鑑賞することの喜びを我々に与えるだろう。

Sachiko Morita, an artist based in Angers, France, is profoundly honest about her own pleasures and curiosities that she finds in her daily life. To prove this, her gaze transitions from the soils of her garden to a 35mm film camera and eventually to watercolor paper.

Her approach to photography is unique. She creates her own photographic paper by applying a photosensitive emulsion with a brush to Italian Fabriano watercolor paper. She then handles a classic enlarger to expose photographs taken in natural light with a 35mm film camera onto the photographic paper. Subsequently the emulsions are meticulously cleared off with a paintbrush and hot water, as if drawing shadows.

As a result, the drawings-like intuitive outlines of her subjects, which are characteristic of her work, can be perceived as both aspect: the photographic one that captures an instant in time, and the pictorial one that is completed over time while defining lines and shadows. With an eye on these two facets, in this title "Time in Air, Time in Paper" Morita attempts to recompose 51 works from over 20 years and capture the simplicity of the flow of time that exists in her own watercolor paper. Morita's works make us strongly aware of "reality and the passing of time". In addition, by poring over her distinctive flow of time, her works may stimulate us with the pleasure of viewing not only through visually but also through our senses.

by Sachiko Morita

REGULAR PRICE ¥7,700  (tax incl.)

hardcover
72 pages
220 x 280 mm    
color
limited edition of 1,000 copies
2022

published by CAIRO APARTMENT