KOMOREBI
Revisiting one’s own childhood is a process where emotion may occasionally stop us from taming memories and translating them in an organized manner.
It feels like observing old photographs, degraded by time, being disorderly taken by the wind. The dance of overlapped images intertwined with rays of sun creates trembling projections of light and shadow.
KOMOREBI is a japanese word that means “sunlight filtrated by tree leaves”. In it, we found shelter to converse with the asian children we were someday.
Kaori Nagata & Rafael Hayashi
HOSHIGAKI PROJECT
Hoshigaki is the Japanese technique for dried persimmon making. The fruits are peeled and hung for weeks. After dried, they should be refrigerated and can be consumed throughout the year, until the next harvest.
This project was conceived in 2017, in the solo exhibition “Inheritance is Accidental”, (Gallery Nomad, Berlin). Among paintings and drawings, an installation consisting of personal objects paid homage to my grandmother, whose memory is wrapped in a dried persimmon nostalgic flavor. I also served hoshigaki for the visitors (that I had taken with me from Japan) and, in a performance, I created a space for dialogue, where the visitors could exchange thoughts about childhood flavors and memories from those who have already departed.
In March 2020, isolated during the pandemic, I decided to learn how to make hoshigaki. Since then this research has been repeated annually. In each harvest in an attempt to also understand the world, I also learn a little about myself and the process itself. I have found out that its most important ingredient is waiting. The tedious work becomes contemplative: with time going by, shiny and smooth fruits are transformed into wrinkly and opaque sculptures on the outside, but shiny on the inside. The color deepens into a dark orange and the surface gets sugar coated by the calm and patience of those who insist in waiting. The result is shared annually with people around me. The main objective lives in this social and cerimonial act of eating and sharing with others. This way, the intangible side of this work can be revealed: the exchange and the ephemeral experience lived in the collective and the community. Therefore, I hope to create spaces where ressonance, dialogues and reflections can occur freely in its entire beauty.
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