Perception | Duo Show
Aya Kawato | Teruri Yamawaki
16th of July 2022 – 10th of September 2022
AIFA Verbier, Switzerland
The Verbier gallery is reopening for the summer season on Saturday July the 16th with a Duo Show dedicated to Aya Kawato and Teruri Yamawaki. A well established painter and an earlier stage ceramist, both exploring the concept of perception in how art is made and perceived.
Aya Kawato’s work perception engenders with the way viewers’ minds integrate the artwork, stimulated by geometrical patterns affecting perception itself. An exploration of the frontier between perception and reality, vision and cognition. A thematic that Aya continues to deeply explore in her art making process with solid recognition.
Teruri Yamawaki
brings along a multi cultural background and believes in non-verbal communication as a basis of mankind’s perception; the result of her overseas’ experiences and related difficulties to communicate with others. Teruri’s works are expressions of a pre-creative visualisation, letting people perceive her emotions and feelings in a universal language: Art.
Aya Kawato’s work explores the theme of “Controlled and Uncontrolled”. She defines the uncontrolled as the deviation that will inevitably arise when a work is made manually; even if created using a meticulous process and under the hands of an utmost skilled craftsman. This deviation is the expression of what could not be prevented from happening during the art creation process, even with the strongest desire of control.
The viewer’s perceptions subtly fluctuate depending on the distance and the viewing angle, but also on his own state of mind, the light, and the work’s environment. At first glance, Aya’s works give the impression of having been created digitally, but they are painted manually and although roughly flat, her works give a distinctive sense of depth and a special warmth at geometric grids. Looking closer, the viewer discovers the unevenness in the paint and the traces left by the artist’s brushstrokes.
Teruri Yamawaki
expresses her feelings and thoughts through her ceramic works; building a piece from scratch with clay is like chanting sutras for her. Through the mysterious presence of her works, she hopes that the audience will feel at ease. She sees her creation as the birth of a new friend, or even an amulet that would bring peace to the viewer. Not only now, but for eternity. Indeed, when a ceramic work is fired, it will live longer than us and will pass on that warmth to the future.
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Aya Kawato 川人 綾
Early influenced by her father, a prominent neuroscientist, and by early years of studies in textile, Aya continues to explore the asymmetry between vision and cognition through her powerful grid paintings. They are expressions of control and imperfection, as an inevitable pattern of manual work, plunging viewers' minds into perceptive spheres beyond common reach. A search for a beauty precisely engendered by the misalignment between what is seen and what is perceived.
Awarded with the Grand Prix at Rêver 2074, co-hosted by Comité Colbert and Tokyo University of the Arts in 2017, and with the Nomura Art Prize in 2018, Aya has become inevitable amongst the successful Japanese contemporary art scene. In Spring 2022, the reputed Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art attributed its “Triangle” exhibition space to Aya’s work; a unique setting to express her newest art creations.
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Teruri Yamawaki やまわき てるりÉlément de liste 2
“After spending several years outside of Japan in countries such as Indonesia and Portugal where both religion and family play a crucial role in society, I realised that those two fundaments are sources of peace of mind for the local people.
From a family with no sense of unity and no shared values, and as being Japanese, I haven’t cared what my religion is until I travelled overseas. Then, I began to feel that I really need a god-like existence to believe into or pray for. This does not only apply to myself but also to the Japanese society, in my sense. I feel that Japanese people often blame themselves rather than possibly rely on their religion or family when something bad happens.
As I spent some time in Japan, I started feeling that people still believe in “spirit”, but rather unconsciously.
Through my works’ mysterious presence I hope it will make the audiences feel at ease. I will try to visualise something like a spirit floating everywhere, which is unique to me, born and raised in Japan.
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