EXHIBITIONS

The wild tanuki was under the eaves of my studio,
It was curled up and dead as if sleeping.

It wasn’t being played by a car,
It was as if it had chosen this place of its own will and died there.

I cried naturally, and at the same time, the blood flowing through my own body, which I had seen in my childhood, came back to life.
I felt the blood flowing in my own body.

In a corner of the city center where modern people come and go
I turned my eyes to the life and death that coexist in our daily lives,
and embodies the worship of pulsating life.

In this exhibition, Ito attempts to express “life” with stillness and dynamism, based on the theme of “worship of life,” which has been Ito’s theme for some time, through her recent experience of the death of a wild raccoon dog and her own childhood experience of “encountering the color of life (blood),” which was evoked through the experience.
The exhibition is as if she is talking to her acquaintances in the city about this experience.
With the hope that it will be an opportunity to reflect on “life” as a part of one’s daily life, rusty washi paper as a symbol of life and death, and red rock paints and pigments representing blood as a symbol of life, will be filtered into the washi paper.