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GOMA EXHIBITION "Map of Hikari"

GOMA EXHIBITION "Map of Hikari"

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GOMA began to draw detailed drawing two days after the accident after a higher brain dysfunction and loss of memory due to a traffic accident in 2009. GOMA draws out that he was one of the world's leading De Juri Do players and had little connection with paintings before the accident, is "scenery seen after losing consciousness."


Even more than ten years after the accident, GOMA has discovered that certain rules exist in the memory of a scene that can be seen before consciousness recovers. In this exhibition "Hikari no Map", the first attempt is to create the scenery from GOMA loss of consciousness to recovery for each stage, and to have viewers relive it as a "map" with certain rules Challenge.


In 2018, GOMA, who visited a research institute in the United States on an NHK ETV documentary program, was diagnosed with "acquired Savan syndrome", in which his brain was injured and suddenly blossomed with unique abilities. Since then, GOMA has found a kind of universality in its creative activities through dialogue with doctors, scientists, and people with the same symptoms.


All of the works that GOMA calls "Hikari" depicts the scenery they met far away from real consciousness. The scenery will evoke the appearance of "Hikari" sleeping at the bottom of our body, transcending races and borders.

 

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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.

 

GOMA EXHIBITION "Map of Hikari"

2023/03/04 (Sat)  - 2023/03/21 (Tue) 

GOMA EXHIBITION "Map of Hikari"

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