'THE PAIN OF DESIRE' 2011
Sayaka Maruyama
Japanese photographer Sayaka Maruyama has been Masumi's long time collaborator. They met in London and have created numerous photographic projects together both in the UK and Japan.
Sayaka Maruyama's practice traverses the mediums of photography, film, drawings, installation and performance. Drawing on classical Japanese references and Surrealist motifs, her work explores contradictory contemporary understandings of Japanese notions of beauty, from both Western and Eastern perspectives. Maruyama primarily gained notoriety for her Japan Avant-Garde series, in which the artist intertwined digitally manipulated images with elements of paper collage and watercolour paint to create intricate, multi-layered imagery, extolling a sense of beauty.
so I fly 2016
Silent Conversation 詩・Masumi Saito
この痛みと哀しみが何処から生まれ何処に流れ着くのか
苦しむのに耐えかねた時 自身に問いかける
それは己の内より産み落とされ、そして再度内側に消化されて行くのだとゆう答えに行き着く
想像力の果てに自らを破滅の淵へと招き込み 大元の原因を、自ら構築した困惑の根源達の蟻地獄へと誘うのである
哀しみの心理を問いただす為には ただただ己に立ち向かうだけでいいのかもしれない
其処に在るは事実のみで 受け入れるとゆう行為のみ
ただ舞っていたいと思う それが価値を残す唯一の手段である故
能動であれど きっと何処かに収まれる箱はあると信ず
pain of desire 2010
Inspired by 'Woman in the dunes' 2010
