经历了2009年交通事故造成的高次脑机能障碍和记忆丧失,GOMA从事故的2天后开始画细致的点画。世界上屈指可数的Dijurido演奏者,事故前与绘画几乎没有缘分的GOMA所描绘的是“意识消失后看到的景色”。
即使在事故发生10多年的今天,也会陷入失去意识的昏迷状态的GOMA,在意识恢复之前看到的情景的记忆中,发现了一定的规则存在。本次展览“光之地图”将GOMA从丧失意识到恢复为止的景色按阶段构成,挑战作为有一定规则的“地图”让鉴赏者再体验的首次尝试。
2018年,GOMA在NHK ETV的纪实节目中访问了美国研究所,被诊断为“后天性沙文综合症”,因为脑部受伤而突然有特异的能力绽放。从那以后,GOMA通过与医生、科学家、有同症状的人们的对话,在自己的创作行为中发现了一种普遍性。
GOMA称之为“光”的作品,都描绘了在远离现实意识的地方相遇的景色。那个景色,超越人种和国境,唤起沉睡在我们身体深处的“光”的身影吧。
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“Map of Light”
In 2009, GOMA began to draw intricate pointillism only two days after a car accident that caused him higher brain dysfunction and amnesia.GOMA, one of the world's leading didgeridoo players who had little connection with painting before the accident, draws the scenery he sees after losing consciousness.
More than a decade has passed since the accident, but GOMA still falls into a coma from time to time.
In 2018, he visited a medical research institute in the United States for an NHK ETV documentary production focusing on the process of his recovery.
There, GOMA was diagnosed with acquired Savant Syndrome, a presentation of (often extraordinary) scholarly skills that can emerge after a non-disabled individual suffers a traumatic brain injury or illness.
Through dialogues with doctors, scientists, and people with similar symptoms, GOMA found a sort of universality in his creative activities and decided to coexist with the intense energy swarming inside his brain rather than fight against it.
After experiencing a coma state many times, GOMA discovered a consistency across his memories of the scenery before becoming conscious.
Light plays an essential role in this process. According to near-death experience researchers, light is also an element reported by many people across different races and gender who had similar experiences to GOMA.
The "Map of Light" exhibition is the first attempt to invite the viewers to relive GOMA's experience through a composition of sceneries, beginning from the loss of consciousness that then moves towards recovery, step by step in a specific order, like following a map.
Here there is GOMA's strong will to "show a trail to return from the 'world of light' where anyone may depart to one day".
All works that GOMA names "Hikari ('Light' in Japanese)" depict scenes he encountered far away from the conscious state existing within the realms of reality.
These sceneries will awaken the figure of "Hikari" that sleeps in the depths of our bodies.
