Performance storage and expression
The origins of performance art
Performance art is about the moment. Like a very short-lived living thing, it creates a momentary emotion and remains in the memory, but it is difficult for the work itself to remain.
Performance art is something that captures a kind of living moment. Kaori Teraoka began creating her current two-dimensional works as a result of her exploration into recording and preserving that moment. She captures the moment through her body. It is like capturing the time that is sensed and expressed within a single frame. Her works seem to express the "form of life" of such "physicality" and "time."
Performance storage and expression
What catches the eye in Kaori Teraoka's two-dimensional work is the color composition and the five lines that serve as her motif. The five lines represent a moment, and every second, they are recorded on the plane through Teraoka's body. She said that the meaning of this form is nothing more than that of a line, and that she feels that it best represents the significance of shaping a moment. The colors are based on her sensibility. Lines are drawn every second. Various moments become colors and overlap to become a painting.
According to Teraoka, "It's easy to record things on video, but that doesn't mean much." It's true that with video, the self and the expression are preserved, but the subject of recording that expression is left to something separate from the self. Video records can preserve facts, but personality and sensibility, which are important in art, are not preserved. Her work can be said to be innovative in that respect.
Another important point to note when looking at Teraoka's work is that it originates from expression through the "body." The blood flowing through us, the time, the air and temperature we touch. We "see" many things without even realizing it. We sense them not only through our eyes, but through our bodies. She says, "I decide the color on a case-by-case basis. I leave it to my sensibility." It could be said that the scenery seen through the body is projected on the screen intuitively.
The materials and expressive techniques used by Kaori Teraoka are also noteworthy. First of all, the material used is washi paper, which comes from the context of "preservation." Japanese paintings began with the Tale of Genji picture scrolls and Yamato-e paintings. Paintings made with washi paper move us even now, 1,000 years later, without fading. In this way, washi paper is a material that can be preserved for a long time when used for pictorial expression.
Furthermore, the reason he uses Japanese paintings is because the colors are appropriate for physical sensations and human colors. He says that the rubbery, artificial texture of acrylic paints seems more suitable for non-human and artificial expressions than for preservation through the body. In contrast, the colors produced by Japanese painting pigments are somewhat pale and seem to represent us and the environment that surrounds us.
As a final observation, in the classical technique of Japanese painting, you paint instantly without making a rough sketch. Her expression seems to adapt this quality to the modern era and to her own, perhaps unconsciously.
Kaori Teraoka
Biography
1995 Born in Shizuoka Prefecture
2019 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Spatial Design, Fashion Course
2020 "O+ Exhibition" Group Exhibition (Shinseido) (From now on '21)
2021 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Design
2021 Drawing Book / Sato Museum of Art (From now on ~'23)
2022 Flying Birds Exhibition / Ginza Ippodo (From now on ~'24)
Ippodo Yohei Okamura
