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Hideji Terada
テラダヒデジ
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1980 年茨城県生まれ。2022 年より作家活動開始。
日本の暦や行事、風習などの暮らしの中に息づく民俗的な営みをもとに、祈りや願いに込められた人々の想いに注目しております。史料に記された風景や祈りのかたちに心を寄せ、目には見えないけれど深く根づく日本の民俗的な感覚を、現代の視点から解釈し物語を重ねるようにして作品を制作しています。今を生きる私たち――同じ民としての感性に響く絵を目指しています。
現在の表現の出発点は、文字を描くことでした。
とりわけ表意文字である「漢字」においては、意味を担う記号としての役割をあえて崩し、原型をかろうじてとどめるギリギリのかたちへと再構成することを試みています。史料の中にもそうした崩れた文字の姿が多く見られます。それは、読み慣れたはずの文字に違和感を抱いたことが、「当たり前に読める」という漢字文化への無意識の深さ、そしてそれが私たちの中に宿る文化的な記憶によるものであるという気づきへとつながりました。
この経験が、やがて「絵」というかたちで日本文化を描く現在の表現につながっています。絵と文字、かたちと意味のあわいを行き来しながら、時間の層をまとった日本の民衆文化の気配をすくい上げ、見る人それぞれの中に眠る「日本」がふと呼び起こされるような、そういった作品を作り続けます。
Born 1980 in Ibaraki, Japan, he began his career as an artist in 2022.
Based on the Japanese calendar, events, customs, and other folkloric activities that live in our daily
lives, I focus on the thoughts and feelings of people in their prayers and wishes. I create my
artwork by drawing on the landscapes and forms of prayer described in historical documents, and
interpreting from a contemporary perspective the invisible but deeply rooted Japanese folk
sensibilities and layering them with a story. I aim to create paintings that resonate with the
sensibilities of those of us who live in the present - the same people. I aim to create paintings that
resonate with the sensibilities of those of us who live in the present - the same people.
The starting point of my current expression was to draw characters.
In particular, in the case of the ideogram“ kanji”, I have dared to break down their role as symbols
that carry meaning, and have attempted to reconstruct them into a form that barely retains their
original form. In the historical record, we can see many such broken characters. TThis experience
of feeling uncomfortable with characters we were supposed to be accustomed to reading led us
to the realization of the depth of our unconsciousness toward the kanji culture, which is“ taken for
granted,” and that this is due to the cultural memory that resides within us.
This experience eventually led to my current expression of Japanese culture in the form of
"painting. Moving back and forth between painting and writing, form and meaning, I continue to
create works that evoke a sense of Japanese folk culture cloaked in layers of time and a sense of
“Japan” that lies dormant within each viewer.
テラダヒデジ _CV
日本の暦や行事、風習などの暮らしの中に息づく民俗的な営みをもとに、祈りや願いに込められた人々の想いに注目しております。史料に記された風景や祈りのかたちに心を寄せ、目には見えないけれど深く根づく日本の民俗的な感覚を、現代の視点から解釈し物語を重ねるようにして作品を制作しています。今を生きる私たち――同じ民としての感性に響く絵を目指しています。
現在の表現の出発点は、文字を描くことでした。
とりわけ表意文字である「漢字」においては、意味を担う記号としての役割をあえて崩し、原型をかろうじてとどめるギリギリのかたちへと再構成することを試みています。史料の中にもそうした崩れた文字の姿が多く見られます。それは、読み慣れたはずの文字に違和感を抱いたことが、「当たり前に読める」という漢字文化への無意識の深さ、そしてそれが私たちの中に宿る文化的な記憶によるものであるという気づきへとつながりました。
この経験が、やがて「絵」というかたちで日本文化を描く現在の表現につながっています。絵と文字、かたちと意味のあわいを行き来しながら、時間の層をまとった日本の民衆文化の気配をすくい上げ、見る人それぞれの中に眠る「日本」がふと呼び起こされるような、そういった作品を作り続けます。
Born 1980 in Ibaraki, Japan, he began his career as an artist in 2022.
Based on the Japanese calendar, events, customs, and other folkloric activities that live in our daily
lives, I focus on the thoughts and feelings of people in their prayers and wishes. I create my
artwork by drawing on the landscapes and forms of prayer described in historical documents, and
interpreting from a contemporary perspective the invisible but deeply rooted Japanese folk
sensibilities and layering them with a story. I aim to create paintings that resonate with the
sensibilities of those of us who live in the present - the same people. I aim to create paintings that
resonate with the sensibilities of those of us who live in the present - the same people.
The starting point of my current expression was to draw characters.
In particular, in the case of the ideogram“ kanji”, I have dared to break down their role as symbols
that carry meaning, and have attempted to reconstruct them into a form that barely retains their
original form. In the historical record, we can see many such broken characters. TThis experience
of feeling uncomfortable with characters we were supposed to be accustomed to reading led us
to the realization of the depth of our unconsciousness toward the kanji culture, which is“ taken for
granted,” and that this is due to the cultural memory that resides within us.
This experience eventually led to my current expression of Japanese culture in the form of
"painting. Moving back and forth between painting and writing, form and meaning, I continue to
create works that evoke a sense of Japanese folk culture cloaked in layers of time and a sense of
“Japan” that lies dormant within each viewer.
テラダヒデジ _CV
