よそ者の話
A Stranger's Tales
Independent New York 2024
2024.05.09 – 2024.05.12
Spring Studios 50 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013
“A Stranger’s Tales” at Independent New York 2024, featuring a series of the artist’s latest paintings on canvas and glass, and her on-site painting performance interacting with ready- made objects. Shoji’s earlier practice engages existing smooth surfaces in her physical proximity as canvases, expressing spontaneous and multilayered feelings in different, familiar or foreign, surroundings. This exhibition is the first to systematically display the artist’s works on canvas rooted in the notion of painting performance. With each canvas work presenting elusive and skinless figures that emerge from the dilute oil paint overlaid on the thick priming pigments, the selection unfolds nonlinear narratives in the themes of body, boundaries, and strange encounters. As each work is named after the date of painting, Shoji’s practice appears at once as diarial mumbles and invocations of unique connections with strangers. Through her gentle touches, Shoji opens up the place for permeability and connectedness to others and expands the sense of the body and space.
