Exhibition "Jūra - Yura" Photographs by Kodo Chijiiwa

Thus, in comparison with the ukyo-e — "pictures of the floating world"; - the Japanese prints that influenced European art at the end of the 19th century, are still in one-way present in Chijiiwa’s series of pictures yurameki — « shaking » world. A worthy heir to this long Japanese tradition, Kodo Chijiiwa continues to explore the sea in his photography, the subtle border between water and air, with tiny variations of chromatic tones. His oceanic triptychs presented at the exhibition offer to view the constantly changing spirit in the elements he explores, the breathing of the sea, the dance of fire or the swaying of trees, thus dialoguing silently with the work of Čiurlionis.

The exhibition emphasizes the presence of the four elements in Chijiiwa's photography: earth, water, air and fire. He celebrates water in all its states: liquid, solid, gaseous; the continuous flow of life runs through his work, like a leitmotif. Figuring the intangible is also a challenge for the artist: air, the domain of wind and light, intermediary between sky and earth, interplanetary vibrations; volcanic vapor and the wind laden with spray, for example, help the photographer to grasp its materiality.

In the series « Gata », Chijiiwa photographs the traces left by the sea when it retreats after its furies, and dried up by the sun. Fantastic seabed with visible cracks on the ground at low tide as warning signs of future constructions for future human societies. Like mosaic tesserae, they recall the technique of Japanese ceramics "raku" and express the common history of earth, fire and water.Kodo Chijiiwa shows us that nature is a unique pulsation where man and the universe are united, and that everything is linked, united in the multiplicity of life. He invites us to traverse the incessant flow of the metamorphoses of matter, in order to make us feel the depth of silence.


Yolita René-Šegždaitė,
Curator
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