Yurayura Yureru Memories and Traces

The catch and chase between leaving traces behind and the disappearing memories. 

An exhibition by two artists Rui SAKURAI, who creates works focusing on physicality, and Alina ZHDANOVA, who creates video artworks on the theme of oblivion.

The portraits created by SAKURAI is not of a specific individual but is an individual created through images, their gaze speaking to the outside world from within the painting. The videography of ZHDANOVA, through an individual’s memory, her works revisits this world we live in, going beyond the individual experience.

The venue is separated into the main building and the storehouse. In the main building the works by SAKURAI from past to current is on view alongside ZHDANOVA’s videos, walking us through SAKURAI’s memories. From a single individual’s experience, we are able to find a similar day-to-day experience that we all share and think of one of the ways the world could be. In the storehouse, SAKURAI’s newest portrait painting is on view along with ZHDANOVA’s video installation that uses audio clips from an interview conducted with international interviewees. In this space the two works by the two artists overlap each other, weaving an advancing timeline.

*Yurayura is an onomatopoeia used in Japan to describe something that sways or moves side to side. Yureru, a verb describing the small rhythmic movements of water, fabric, and spiderwebs as well as the sensation of losing balance.