MADARA MANJI

In this exhibition, “IT WAS”, he has acquired a wider range of means of expression based on his constant interest in the “state of the human mind”, which has led him to create and present new three-dimensional works and installations. For the artist, who has always considered the creation of works as “a research activity based on imagination and curiosity,” all kinds of materials have become a means of expressing the proposition of “what it means to exist,” and his thinking continues to expand even today. This exhibition “IT WAS” is linked to the exhibition “ALIVE” at the Shiga Kogen Roman Museum of Art, and there is a strong relationship between these two exhibitions. In particular, the installation work “Traces of Waves (untitled)” in this exhibition was created using “SKIN #01,” a work shown in the “ALIVE” exhibition at the Shiga Kogen Roman Museum. The titles of the two venues are “IT WAS” and “ALIVE,” which are one word. This method of expression is an example of the artist’s transcending space to express his idea that “the human psyche consists of a vast amount of information and a complex causal relationship of opposing factors. Since his solo exhibition “Antagonism and Trancesendence” at the gallery in 2017, Madara Manji has exhibited in a wide range of countries.