高野萌美 個展「Thread Poetics」

GALLERY HAYASHI+ART BRIDGE is pleased to present Moemi Takano's solo exhibition "THREAD POETICS". This exhibition will be the first solo exhibition held at GALLERY HAYASHI+ART BRIDGE, and we will present new works focusing on the threads that play a central role in Takano's work. Moemi Takano creates works that change shape into clothing and daily necessities, starting from the fabrics (textiles) that exist around us, and explore the point where their social and cultural backgrounds and art history intersect. He has stayed in various regions in Japan and abroad, observed the unique dyeing and weaving techniques of each region, and has gained spiritual awareness through his own hands and interpretation over time, overlapping them with the thoughts he feels in his daily life. This exhibition was named "THREAD POETICS" because Takano began to be conscious of treating each of his works as more linguistic and poetic. The impetus for actively using Koya's yarn to create works was when I went to Peru in 2018 and experienced traditional local natural dyeing. There she witnessed the process of creating bright colors using organic matter such as plants and insects, and the primitive technique of weaving fabrics with intricate patterns using wooden sticks and ropes, and felt the breath of a culture that has been passed down through the ages. Takano talks about that experience in an interview. "There, things were naturally sublimated into new things, and everything I did as it was full of inevitability. Then I interpreted the attitudes of the local people in my own way, and I began to think that expressions that can only be expressed because I grew up in Japan can only be achieved using threads." (Art Collectors June issue) When he encountered Andean textiles, which condensed the small but magnificent activities of mankind, in which the accumulation of daily labor by human hands eventually became a culture and was inherited, Takano reflected on his concept-oriented attitude of raising problems with society and criticizing the system. I came to believe that it is important for my own creation to honestly face the small interests and desires that arise from my life. He said that he has come to accept not only thinking using words, but also taking the time to come into contact with the physical materials in front of him. From the works created in this way, we can also read the quiet resistance to society in recent years towards simplification, speed, and uniformity. Takano says that he is a moderate. It can be said that it is an attitude that seeks harmony beyond all binary oppositions, such as artificial and natural, center and periphery, order and chaos. She tries to acquire a new visual language by treating hand-woven fabrics and hand-spun threads, natural dyeing and mass-produced commercial fabrics and threads, and coloring with dangerous chemicals in parallel, and breaking and reconstructing what can be mixed with them. Their actions are also like poets who dismantle the meaning of words and "spin" them again. See the work of the "golden mean" Takano who grew up in Japan, studied in the UK, and continues to travel to Peru, India, and Mexico.