# Ausstellungen

Perception

AIFA, rue de la Poste 6, 1936 Verbier
Since she was a small child, Aya Kawato has been influenced by her neuroscientist father. This influence fostered an awareness that the world is perceived through the brain and made her particularly interested in optical illusions. After studying textiles as an undergraduate in Kyoto, she sought out different methods of expression and arrived at her current grid painting style. Humans have a perceptual tendency to fill in the gaps in incomplete patterns, and she found herself enjoying the way her mind was creating the image on the cloth as it was being woven. Inspired by this, she decided to create a series of paintings with 45-degree diagonal lines overlapping perpendicular ones. As you examine the work in this show from different distances and angles, she hopes you enjoy the shifts that occur in the image through the innumerable perpendicular and diagonal lines that have been individually divided and painted. Her work expresses themes of control and imperfection.

After spending several years outside of Japan in countries such as Indonesia and Portugal, where both religion and family play a crucial role in society, ceramist artist Teruri Yamawaki, realised that those two fundaments are sources of peace of mind for the local people. From a family with no sense of unity and no shared values, she felt that she really needs a god-like existence to believe into or pray for. Through her works’ mysterious presence, like kind spirits floating, she hopes it will make the audiences feel at ease. As she spent some time overseas and often struggled in communication, she really believes in “Power of non-verbal communication”. When it comes to communication without words, eyes or facial expressions have stronger messages than anything. She hopes the viewer by looking at her ceramics will get its own impression just by looking at the face, not by reading the caption (that can cause misunderstanding) and feel some “spirit” from it.

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