I feel that, in the works so far, while undergoing the process of confirming a life-like sensation and the presence that can be felt from that energy, I have been experiencing encounters with yet unknown feelings that I had not encountered in my own experience or intuition. Visually, this has resulted in creating forms that represent what can in a sense be described as the "body" of an "animal."
This newly attempted work, "Syn.", is not that different in that it represents interest in myself and in the "existence" of all matters besides myself that influence me... But when the work on "Syn." was begun, in the process of piling up the various considerations, there was a moment when I felt somewhat new "values." The value of the various elements that surrounded me, the value of the various "things" that I had encountered so far; the value of the things I felt from that and all the memories, at times chronologically but at other times carelessly overlapping, and yet organically coordinated, too mysteriously interconnected for me to organize, which, most of all, existed with absolute certainty.
I wanted to try to express just as I feel them the things I cannot see, but know with certainty that they exist, which I cannot describe as time or space, nor as the world of senses.
In the layers of trial and error that make up this work, the things that appeared before my eyes started to seem to be objects, space, and something that was neither one nor the other.
It is something like memories older than being born on the earth, like something trying to be born, like the stretching roots of a big tree, like a sweet little girl, like withering flowers.
I thought there was something like marrow (芯=syn) that made up and put into motion the universe and myself, but in creating this work, the true (真=syn) elements that make up the heart (心=syn) were a chain of affirmative energy that tries to join all the little connections and believe (信＝syn) in the existence.
It is thanks to all the many series and overlaps that I am alive.
In coming face to face with this deep emotion, I pray that from here a future, new (新=syn) chain of affirmative energy will be born.
I entrusted the journey of this work, as I have so far, to my own intuition and sense of touch. In addition to the process of creating sculptures, I incorporated techniques to express the gentle curves of the relationships, or the organic "undulation" and "uncertainty" that is impossible to consciously control, for example by using for the first time thread-shaped materials, etc.
Yuco Maruo | 丸尾結子
To date, the modeling that Maruo has used to create her sculptures has been a technique to physically create the surface (exterior) of a three-dimensional object, but there was a sense of "something" gushing forth from the interior, like an energy or a feeling of a life force.
In this new work, the focus is not on its physical surface; by one interpretation it is outside. But depending on the point of view, it may also seem like it is inside; for instance, like the impressions of existence or presence, or the emotions that spring from communication.
For example, if you regard the sense of existence of life-like entities as a latent theme or stage, what really became a hint of this present expression was the feelings and memories based on personal experience, which are not linearly or otherwise neatly arranged inside of one's consciousness. Some are overlapped and piled up, but all seem to be interconnected. What is dynamically drawn in space is not only tenderness or complexity, but also a presence with a kind of animal sexiness. The technique of the expression that is finally achieved this time has several resulting elements...
Synchronization
Synonym (the same consciousness being experienced as a different expression)
Synthesize (being synthesized and initiating a chain reaction while influencing something new)
I felt something common between these keywords and the technique, and the title is a play on their common abbreviation, "Syn."
What's more, "Syn" in Japanese is read as "shin," which can mean
"心 (heart)"
"新 (new)"
"真 (truth)"
"信 (believe)"
and so on, all of which are kanji readings with a very positive nuance. Since this is Maruo's first overseas solo exhibit, there is also an awareness of Japanese culture in the word sounds.
YUCO MARUO:
Syn.
―The Obscure Intersect and Swaying Connections―
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January 5 - February 1, 2019
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