October 23
Strawberry cultivators wearing kimono, young girl fans of the Inari’s mask, kind sewing men with pink masks in their hands.
The second and last sunday of the workshop leaves a rich and deep change in my studio, and I feel lucky for so the precious contribution of people, mostly young, who attended in this step of the project ” the Riso rosa Blessing”.
The exhibition is growing into her own space, certainlyi will includes installation and traces of the workshop and the performance. The project of the Riso Rosa performace focuses on Rice, Time, and on balance of Fire and Water and includes the presence of the textile drawing of ilori as metaphor of a woven world of stories and of life.
In that place the guests sat down for a cup of tea maybe have found the perfect venue for a story-telling of their lives or their trips.
As the italian philosopher Francesca Rigotti writes, “Just what do words and sentences and lines tell us? They tell us of the material word and of immaterials ideas. They speak us of things and objects, those solid things that are thrown in front of you (from the latin ob-jectum[1]) and wich you have to come to terms wich.”
Another memory related with the image of the irori (which was an energetic center of the house) is the home as a territory delimited by the sizes of the tatami. This is a very special geometry for a western point of view, and I would like, in the space of my installation, create a relationship with the paper size, because the paper has been for centuries the territory of the project.
[1] Francesca Rigotti
Words, objects, threads: a philophical reading of Marina Gasparini’s artwork.
Catalogue of the exhibition “Il denaro è un bene comune” Civic Museum of Art, Modena (Italy), october 2014.
I’m going to wear a kimono and a mask that represents Inari in feminine features during the performance. The female goddes is present in my culture too with the name of Hestia. She was the guardian of the hearth in an-cient Rome.
I’’ll stay next to the textile drawing of the irori watching people while they are moving around the space with a pink mask on their faces. A group of people dances wearing pink masks realized in a workshop.
The Otafuku mask and the color pink signify the sacred time, the one dedicated to the celebration and thanksgiving.
The time to laugh and dance, also.
