Asuka Miyahara intends to make various relationships created between things (paintings) and humans (viewers) by treating materials, contents, and exhibition methods in parallel, and thereby extract the energy of the materials. The observation of complex natural structures and her own experiences toward the materials are important.
“Plants and painting are very similar”, she says. When it’s drawn or painted, leaves and shadows become the same material – paint, and when oil paint seeps into paper, the lines that move back and forth become inconsistentsomewhere, creating a space that is nowhere else. And then, finally, the painting begins.
I am interested in the fact that this paper material makes various relationships between picture and viewer while deforming in various ways. When a familiar object shows a strange appearance, you feel something strange and uncomfortable. Because there is the vitality of the Things.