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      "statement": "Sumi ink, animal glue, and gofun, the constituent elements of painting, are respectively carbon, protein, and calcium, the same elements that constitute living organisms. While painting materials feel continuous with the painter's own body, the act of making also carries the sense of bringing forth an artificial organism. Just as stretched washi comes to look lustrous, these materials are met with an urgent sympathy. What the painting seeks to bring into view is a vast landscape not yet seen, and that landscape is the very condition of the human being: taking in others, altering in its details, and still holding its shape as a whole.\n\nMatsushita chews back through the materials, techniques, and thought that begin in the field of Nihonga, taking them on through her own body. Through this practice she reassembles art with her own hands. What lies further out, in the deviation from that ground, is the uncharted territory she is after.\n\nIn recent years she has received the raw hides of deer and boar taken in hunting and produced animal glue by kawazuke, the traditional method in which the hides are broken down by bacteria in a river. This is in order to recognize glue, the binding medium of Nihonga, not merely as a painting material but as a presence that holds the history of land and life.",
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            "Founder and Director, AIR Ohara"
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            "Reflection 77 Years Later: KYOTO 2026, Fujii Daimaru 7gallery, Kyoto"
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            "Izuru Mimei no [Of the Breaking Dawn], +2gallery, Osaka"
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            "Challenge: Sugawara Takehiko and His Students, Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto"
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            "Ohara Spring Exhibition, Ohara Cultural Center, Kyoto",
            "Art OHARA International Exhibition, Ohara Cultural Center / AIR Ohara Gallery, Kyoto",
            "International Nonviolence Exhibition #SUM_MER_2025, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto",
            "Yamabiko [Echo], AIR Ohara Gallery, Kyoto"
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            "AIR Ohara 1st Anniversary Festival: Comeback! Autumn Leaves Festival, AIR Ohara, Kyoto"
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            "Matsushita Midori works back through the materials, techniques, and thought of Nihonga, taking each on through her own body. She receives the raw hides of deer and boar taken in hunting and lets river bacteria break them down, producing animal glue by the traditional kawazuke method. Glue, the binding medium of Nihonga, is handled not as mere material but as a substance carrying the history of land and life. She reassembles art with her own hands. Born in Aichi. MFA, Kyoto University of the Arts, 2024. Lives and works in Kyoto."
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