RINA MARUYAMA
BODIES IN CARNAL MAJESTY…
Body of sky, body in weightlessness, body-universe.
Rina Maruyana, a young artist from Japan, and Parisian by adoption, offers a very rich and renewed vision of humanity. Spiritualized, densified and as if in weightlessness, the sacred flesh detaches itself modestly, and proudly, from the expanse. It reigns in fullness. In infinity.
The wisdom of Asia embraces from within its sumptuous nudity. Imprinted from another way of thinking, where the body triggers thoughts, and breathes oxygen into the depths of the mind. Rina Maruyama’s painted bodies, set against a background of unfathomable space, are the only landmarks of the soul within the confines carnal expectations. Her figures, while in statuary positions, remain dominant. They reign in carnal majesty. They carry contemplation to the razor’s edge of infinity.
The ceremonial body is an artificial body, created from all manner of cultural scraps, imposing and dogmatic. The “Maruyanesque” body is lived, vital and inhabited. It is the home of humanity in the universe – corporeity marked by sensual abstraction, and rich in warm, vital thickness. Naked and vibrant bodies, stripped of everything except the essential. Vibrant with inner tension and solar beauty.
The body of appearance is a specter of eternity. The painted body is a body of ultimate resistance, a body of indispensable truth. The body of the deep has no presence in the shallow chapter of appearances.
The body, distinguished from the landscape, incarnates a sort of symbolic separation from the umbilical cord, allowing the possibility to live untethered, and autonomous of existential mastery. This primal separation presupposes the ability to accommodate intercorporeality and otherness. The artist, like the deceased pharaoh who would self-generate his own rebirth for all eternity, recreates her body through the very process of creation, just like she recreates the carnal landscape of her dreamed existence.
Rina Maruyana’s body of work demonstrates the imperative need for pictorial stripping. – « Christian Noorbergen »