Saori Kanda calls her own creative work 'Life Painting'. To paint life. To paint throughout her life. You may take her words anyway you want.

To paint. For her, it is not just to create artworks but it is to record her encounters and her growth. What you see in her work is always a festival of lines and colors that breathes heavily holding enthusiasm within. It is like a flower, like a body, or like a landscape of an unknown country. Who is Saori Kanda that creates this?

Having spent her childhood in Baghdad and Dubai, she says she always had a longing for Japan, a far country from where she was. Certainly, in her work, it seems that influences from Arabic world and elements of Japanese roots are inseparably interwoven in her depiction of human body, detailed patterns, and the curves of her flowing brushstrokes.

She does live with unbridled enthusiasm. She paints, longs for encounters with people and places, travels, talks, listens, gets worried, breaks down, laughs, creates, sheds tears, lives, communicates, and again, paints - with all her strength and all her heart.

It does not matter if it is a live painting performance, a creation of tableau, or collaboration with other fields such as music, fashion, and so on. She does what she does. She jumps into the encounter throughout her body, communes with it, and devotes herself to it. Then, she lets her brushes run.

The 'heat' that is boiling in all Saori Kanda's work is the 'heat' liberated in a chemical reaction of the encounters with people, things, and places throughout her life.

Life Painting. To live out her life is to paint.

Life Painting - Saori Kanda's Creation
Written by Chiori Fujita / Curator at Tokyo National Museum


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