經過2009年交通事故引起的高次腦機能障礙和記憶喪失,GOMA從事故的2天後開始畫細緻的點畫。GOMA是世界屈指可數的迪朱利杜演奏者,事故發生前與繪畫幾乎沒有緣分的GOMA所描繪的是“意識消失後看到的景色”。
即使在事故發生10多年的現在,GOMA也會陷入失去意識的昏迷狀態,GOMA發現在恢復意識之前看到的情景的記憶中,存在一定的規則存在。在本次展“光的地圖”中,GOMA將從喪失意識到恢復為止的景色按階段構成,挑戰作為有某種規則的“地圖”挑戰讓鑒賞者體驗的首次嘗試。
2018年,GOMA因NHK ETV的紀實節目訪問了美國研究所,被診斷為大腦受傷而突然爆發出特殊能力的“後天性Savan症候群”。GOMA從那以後,通過與醫生、科學家、有同樣症狀的人進行對話,在自己的創作行為中發現了一種普遍性。
GOMA稱之為“光”的作品,每一部都描繪了遠離現實意識時遇到的景色。那個景色,超越人種和國境,喚起沉睡在我們身體深處的“光”的身姿吧。
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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.
