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"trance"
Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai

September 2 - September 17, 2017
12:00-19:00
closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai

Bambinart Gallery is pleased to present "trance", a solo exhibition by Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai.

Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai parents are from two different countries: Japan and Romania, and Scripcariu-Ochiai grew up on the island country of Japan. Scripcariu-Ochiai’s background still influences her practice, often emerging through the use of layering and movement in her work and an obsession with ideas of intersection.
In this exhibition, two images of Scripcariu-Ochiai’s relatives are placed face-to-face and illuminated with a light box as part of the series, ‘One’. These are displayed alongside an installation work that uses a Magic Lantern and images from a Japan and Europe of the past. The images move around the space like celestial bodies.

"In my early installation work, I focused mainly on the relationship between the body and the mind and on ideas of the interior and exterior, separated by a boundary (mainly, the skin as a boundary). However, my work changed considerably following a two-month, solo journey across Instanbul, Turkey; the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, Poland; Berlin, Germany and the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Scotland, UK that I completed as an Ishibashi Foundation scholarship student in 2015. Recently, I have become interested in themes drawn from cultural anthropology such as ‘Distance and space, things beyond time’, ‘Feelings of floating without a fixed location’, ‘Distortion and gaps when different events occur simultaneously’, and I have employed these motifs in my artworks. At the same time, I am also trying to tackle topics such as minority identities, difference, discrimination, and prejudice. More recently, I have been researching festivals, ceremonies and religion in Japan and Romania. I am currently working on a project that takes a long time to capture and connects the ideas of: ‘The world we can see and the world we can’t see’ and ‘The past and present’. I believe that the exhibition, ‘Trance’, will be an important exhibition that will connect the past and future of my work."
- Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai

Ana Scripcariu- Ochiai was born in 1992, in Saitama, Japan. In 2016, she graduated as the top student from the Department of Oil Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. She is now a practicing artist and is enrolled in the GAP (Global Art Practice) programme at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since 2012, she has exhibited a range of installation works, mainly using photography, including: ‘It Is the Furthest = It Is the Nearest’ (2016), ‘The Other Side, Over There’ (2015), and ‘Flickering Outline’ (2015) which employed photography, video, sound and other mixed media. The installation works she produces are not constrained to any particular media. In February this year, Scripcariu- Ochiai also produced and displayed light box and magic lantern works as part of the installation ‘Intersect’ in the lead up to her current exhibition, ‘Trance’.



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"trance"
Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai

September 2 - September 17, 2017
12:00-19:00
closed on Mondays and Tuesdays
Venue:Bambinart Gallery
B107 3331 Arts Chiyoda