Natsuki Nakayama is a multidisciplinary artist who creates and expresses herself through her two preferred media: painting and cinema. She explores the dualities that emerge from the hidden desires within human beings.
Moving back and forth between paintings and films, the viewer touches the roots of opposing concepts as “self” and “other” and “front and back,” and experiences the fluctuations and ambiguities inherent in the human psyche. By evoking emotions through the colors and brushstrokes of the paintings and layering the emotions evoked by the film images onto the canvases, the experience invites a journey into a boundless emotional universe.
Nakayama’s word :
While painting and film are different forms of expression, they share a common root. While a painting is static in its finished form, the continuous process of painting, involving the brush touching the canvas, is extremely dynamic and incorporates physical gestures. In the filmmaking process, countless moving images are arranged continuously in space and time with artistic consideration, and both films rely on this dynamism to evoke beauty and a variety of emotions through our sense of sight.
In film, I am not interested in a story or a definite subject, but in more subtle and invisible dimensions, such as the interplay of gazes, the distance between bodies, or the viscosity of time.
Between the pleasure and anxiety of “seeing” and the violence and intimacy of “being seen,” film is a device that reflects the complex interplay of human existence. The static time of painting and the continuous time of film. The formal difference between the two is an opportunity for me to question the limits of expression, and at the intersection of the two, it becomes possible to delve into the ambiguous terrain between the visual and the physical, the inner and outer worlds, and the subject and the other.