Locations and towns Ai Ito traveled to and her memories and experiences there have been expressed through a single tapestry made using a traditional method of tapestry making using photograph collages that were taken on her travels. While Ito’s works appear to be photographs or paintings from a distance, you can see they are certainly woven using warps and weft when you get close. The Travel Snapshots carry the lightness of a collage. At the same time, various elements like different times, locations, perspectives, and motifs are completed by being woven one by one creating an overwhelming sense of time. As a result, the works start to carry a certain sense of weight due to the Mindfulness produced by the sense of time. Multi-layered expansion of time and space spreads everywhere in front of you making viewers remember their own memories and experiences in addition to the artist’s. It will be a rich experience that viewers will have a hard time looking away from.

伊藤藍は自身が旅した場所、訪れた街、そこでの記憶や思い出を、現地で撮影した写真をコラージュし綴織という伝統的な技法を用いて一枚のタペストリーとして表現しています。
一見写真や絵画に見えるその作品は近づくと確かに経糸と緯糸で紡がれており、「旅」の「スナップ写真」をコラージュする軽やかさと同時に、種々様々な時間や場所、視点、モチーフといった要素が糸を一本一本織り込むことで実現しているという、圧倒的な時間からも生み出される「念」といったものと相まってある種重量感を持って現れます。この眼前に隅々まで展開される多層的な時間と空間の拡がりは、鑑賞者に作家のものだけでない自身の記憶、想いも想起させ、簡単には目が離せない充実した体験をもたらします。

Ai Ito / 伊藤藍

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