トミモとあきな個展『MANAKO : Where Water Gazes Back』を2025年5月9日（金）よりSony Imaging Gallery（東京・銀座）にて開催致します。
Solo Exhibition — MANAKO : Where Water Gazes Back
will be held at Sony Imaging Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo, starting Friday, May 9, 2025.
⚪︎会期 / Days⚪︎
2025年5月9日（金）〜5月22日（木） 11:00〜19:00
5/9 Fri. ~ 5/22 Thur.
⚪︎場所 / Place⚪︎
Sony Imaging Gallery Ginza
〒104-0061 東京都中央区銀座５丁目８−1 銀座プレイス 6F
5 Chome−8−1 6F, Ginza, Chuo City, 104-0061 Tokyo
⚪︎在廊予定 ⚪︎
決定次第お知らせします。
The schedule of the artists’ presence at the gallery will be announced as soon as it is confirmed.
MANAKO : Where Water Gazes Back
本展は、「水の“まなざし”を写真に捉える」という試みのもと、『MANAKO : Where Water Gazes Back』というタイトルで制作された作品シリーズである。2019年より実験と制作を開始したこのシリーズは、「写真に“私”は転写されるのか」という問いへの、作家自身の一つの応答でもある。
水が“私たち”を見つめることで、自己のイメージが揺さぶられ、変容していく。本作の根底には、そうした視覚と存在の関係性をめぐる問いが横たわっている。かつて人間が“自分自身のイメージを見る”ためには、奥行きをもった鏡としての“水”という他者の存在が必要であった。そしてこの作品においての“水”とは、“他者”であると同時に“自己”でもある。水がまなざしたから人間はまなざしたのか。水がまなざしたから私はカメラを向けたのか。はたまたその逆か。
“まなざし”によって立ち上がる“自己”と“他者”の交錯と融合。
そして、そのまなざしの瞬間に宿る美の探求と表現が、本展の核となっている。
Since 2019, this body of work has been shaped by a central question: Can the self be transcribed in a photograph? In seeking answers, the artist turned to water—a medium that has historically served as both a mirror and a metaphor, and here, as an observer in its own right.
With its ever-shifting surface and unfixed depths, water has long allowed humans to glimpse their own reflections. But this series asks a deeper question: What if water does more than reflect? What if it gazes back?
The title Manako, a Japanese word meaning “eye,” differs from Me, which refers to the physical organ of vision. Manako evokes a deeper awareness—one that includes emotional resonance and the perception of inner truths.
In this series, the artist seeks to capture the gaze of water—its subtle presence as an “other” that watches us as we watch it. Drawing on Jean-Paul Sartre’s concept of the gaze, where the Other is both seen and unseen, the artist reframes water as an active participant in perception rather than a passive surface.
Through photography—a medium uniquely capable of suspending time and compressing space—the work reveals fleeting moments in which the boundary between self and other dissolves. Reflections, distortions, and the ephemeral movement of water are used to question the notion of a stable or fixed self.
In these images, viewers are not simply observing water—they are being observed. The self, once thought stable, is unsettled, fragmented, and transformed. What emerges is a quiet invitation to reconsider not only how we see, but how we are seen—by nature, by others, and perhaps, by ourselves.
This series offers a meditation on the fragile interplay between self and other, image and reality, perception and existence—a silent yet profound dialogue held within the gaze of water.
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