Eva Sakuma - Forgotten preciousness 18. 10. - 15. 11. 2024
Eva Sakuma
Forgotten Preciousness
“Life vanishes quickly, like a line drawn on water.” (Buddha)
The exhibition Forgotten Preciousness presents Eva Sakuma’s paintings from the last two years which have not left the studio until now. Together, the works form a compact whole in both form and content. Another significant shift in the artist’s work is based on a strong inner experience, which makes the paintings even more intense. The transfer of perception into a painting is a mystery for the artist herself. The painting speaks, yet it is silent, it strikes the viewer with its depth and multifacetedness, and yet it holds an absolute calm.
The city, slanted into black and white geometric surfaces, is not so much a real place as elements assembled into a larger whole. The atmosphere of a ruthlessly angular urban landscape in which it is no longer possible to live gives an almost post-catastrophic impression in a light breeze and rain. The absence of the shadows of objects, transparency in the sense of their elusiveness and the loss of the solid foundation of things caused by our own fault, all balanced here by a sense of infinite bliss, focus, and attention contained symbolically in a circle that brings deliverance from all human torment.
The author wishes to obscure the city with nature or at least a garden, to cover the chaos and noise with peace and quiet. The city pulsates with the rhythm of an ordered surface, however, and nature unfolds at a different pace. They thus stand in a certain contrast, while at the same time the painting leads the viewer to a deeper reflection on their interpenetration. A two-way dialogue thus emerges between the natural environment and man, with an attempt to understand existence as such in a shared world. Eva Sakuma understands perception as a constant tuning of our own rhythms with the tones and textures of the things that surround us. It is a synchronized dance of the physical subject with the phenomena of its surroundings. Together with the trees, grass, wind and rain, the whole material world awakens and speaks. The abstractness of the bamboo forest disappears and becomes a network of pervasive sensations experienced by the person. It is a pure bliss, one in which we allow ourselves to fully experience and perceive the forgotten preciousness of the nearby landscape of which we are an integral part. We touch the tree, but through our own tangibility we also perceive that we are touched by the tree. The underground river of the unconscious flows through us, inside us, bringing new life again through our veins and arteries. Gradually the old world crumbles, and new energy is born.
Ela Suárez Illerias