VIJA CELMINS "To Fix the Image in Memory" 2/2 | Exhibition Archive 2020#2

EXHIBITION ARCHIVE 2020 #2

VIJA CELMINS "To Fix the Image in Memory" at The MET BREUER 2/2

Here is the second half of the exhibition Vija Celmins "To Fix the Image in Memory" I visited on January 9, 2020, right before it was closing. I recommend to read the first half of the exhibition first that is posted in my previous blog. I visited this exhibition to see the first half last year on September 28, 2019.

The images of exhibited artworks and wall texts are posed after two random writing from past few days as usual.

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Although I am not going to go deeper about what art is, I believe that art cannot be just an idea, even for conceptual art. It has to be processed though and bloomed by the artist for an idea or vision to be art.

And that's the artist's job. Maybe one of the most important one that requires more than just skills and knowledges.

I remember someone who I used to work for once told me that "Let the professional do their job." It was soon after when I moved to NYC, I learned so much from the person but as a young poor human that idea sounded like far away yet fascinating an ideal goal for myself and for the world. 

Although "the professional" was not about artist she was talking, but it was about everything to me. Not literal everything but it was about everything for me, about the world I was going to put my life into, or where I was already putting my foot in by being there in her studio not my home. I might be a born artist, but also I was at the time trying to devote myself to become a "professional" artist. 

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タイミングって大事ね。

自分が色々なものにぶつかっては向き合って、成長して、その中で『タイミング』って『流れみたいなもの』なんだなって体感しながら息をして、酸欠の中でもなんとか、なぜか、酸素は途切れなくて、そしてそれは自分の動き次第で作ることもできるんだっていうことに気がついて、実際に本当にこの数年は『タイミング』を呼び込むような生活をしているなと思う。でも呼び込むと言っても、『タイミング』は来たところで、コントロールがほとんどできないものなのだから、そしてそこが結局面白いところなのだけれど。

そう、だからタイミングって私にとっては『生き物』みたいなもの。

数年経てふとまた考える時に、結論は最初と同じで、タイミングは『大事なもの』、ということに収まるわけです。

Images below are my record of exhibition and they are arranged mostly in order of when I walked the exhibition. All photos are unedited.