Based on the technique of painting, Mariko Ohashi creates paintings as vis utilized time by accumulating lines drawn by herself on a canvas and accumulating time linked to her own body. I’m here.

Ohashi, who does not perceive paintings as simple two – dimensional schemes, in other words, as mere images, considers them to be objects endowed with materiality. It is painted on the canvas every day until one work is completed, slowly establishing her own senses, biorhythms, and accompanying temporality that vary slightly from day to day.

At the same time, she employs college in that method, composing the screen while quoting lines and sometimes comic designs. By accumulating lines and figures drawn by hand, she gives paintings an accumulation of time and meaning, as if the earth and tress create layers over time, drawning time to the level of the visible world and recreating it as a new visual language. I have a goal to build.

Ohashi brings into his paintings gimmick that makes us strongly aware of materiality and time, both of which are important elements that surround us as human beings. Our daily life is simplified by tools, and in the modern age where physicality is getting farther away from that life, it will take on a message with a high volume. In that sense, it can be said that Mariko Ohashi’s paintings depict the position, existence, and the world of human beings, that are common throughout all eras.