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ART&CULTURE / 2023.03.06

Interview with GOMA EXHIBITION "Hikari Map" (March 3)

Interview with GOMA EXHIBITION "Hikari Map"

GOMA is a musician and painter of Australian brass instrument dejuridu. Currently, his solo exhibition "Hikari's Map" is being held. Point drawings, which suddenly began to draw after a traffic accident in 2009, are like dynamic fluctuations of overlapping waves, like graphical mathematical sequences, and like Mandala. These dense and powerful, dazzling worlds are all scenes of the "other world" that emerges in your brain as consciousness recovers. Let's ask GOMA about his enthusiasm for the solo exhibition and his drawing.

  • Interview & Text
    Yusuke Nakamura
  • Photo
    Yuji Iwai

ー I think that one of the attractions of the "Hikari Map" exhibition is that it is possible to expand various images from the interpretation of those who appreciate it. How do you feel about the significance of this exhibition?

 

GOMA: I started painting after my consciousness returned (after the accident in 2009), so I have such a life. I learned with myself that I don't know when and what will happen. But even if this happens, I want you to know that you can regenerate and live a new life. There is such a world of "Hikari". So I don't think anyone can look at it. It may be useful if you can come back from that world or cannot come.

 

- It was a map before it was a work. Do you look back on the accident now?

 

GOMA: Why was it you before (in an accident)? What would have happened if I hadn’t been on the highway? Think about it. I thought I would be able to go back to the past. Because (just before the accident) there is something like a warning of insects.

 

What kind of insects do you know?

 

GOMA: On the day of the accident, I was in a car with my daughter, and I got back home. So I took my daughter down and went out by car alone again, and had an accident. It is unfortunate that I did not get involved with my daughter, but I couldn't catch my intuition and my intuition. If you believed that intuition…I'm still thinking about it. But recently, because I started painting, I came to think that I was able to make a movie of the main character ("Flashback Memorys 3D"), and that I have gained more new encounters than before.

 

Finally, what do you think about the future of painting was waiting for you?

 

GOMA: For the first time in an American lab in 2018, why do I paint? What’s happening to your brain? It was cleared, my feelings were clear. Since then, I have been able to draw a picture. I couldn't imagine the future of pointing at the age of 50, but I can't just say that I'm traveling to Osaka in this way at an exhibition now is my fate. I originally liked traveling. But I never thought I would travel to that world (laughs)

■Exhibition details

GOMA EXHIBITION: Map of Hikari

After a high-level brain dysfunction and memory loss due to a traffic accident in 2009, GOMA began drawing detailed point drawings two days after the accident. GOMA, who is one of the world's leading di Juri du players and had little connection with painting before the accident, depicts "the scenery seen after the loss of consciousness."


Even more than a decade after the accident, GOMA found that there is still a loss of consciousness in a coma, and that there are certain rules in the memory of the sight that appears before consciousness recovers. In this exhibition "Hikari Map", the scenery from the loss of consciousness to the recovery of GOMA will be structured in stages, and the first attempt will be made to have viewers relive it as a "map" with certain rules.

 

■Exhibition Period: March 4 (Sat) to March 21, 2023 (Tuesday/holiday)

■Opening: Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F PARCO GALLERY

■Entrance fee: 500 yen (tax included) ※Free for elementary school students and younger

Click here for details of the exhibition

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GOMA

 

A player and painter of the traditional Australian Aboriginal instrument "Di Juri Do". In 1998, he won the runner-up at the Balunghadijuridu Competition in Australia, and has been widely active in Japan and overseas. In 2009, he suffered a traffic accident and stopped activities due to symptoms of higher brain dysfunction. On the other hand, two days after the accident, he began drawing detailed point drawings, and has now held numerous solo exhibitions including BACKWOODS GALLERY (2016) Shinjuku Takashimaya Art Gallery (2018 and 2019) in Australia. In 2012, he appeared in the movie "Flashback Memorys 3D" featuring himself, and won the audience prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival. At the opening ceremony of the 2021 TOKYO Paralympics, he was in charge of entrance songs for the tracks. He works on the music director of the 2022 stage "Slowly Unneri" and art in the play. The Seika Mandala was housed in the shrine of Hitachi Province, ancient shrine, which has a thousand years of history.
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