Inez Ishizaki

How to create a stage in drawings as with drawings? The world Inez Ishizaki captures in her drawings shows recognizable and intimate scenes, inhabited by surreal and intriguing figures, which sometimes cross the border between the human and the animal. Drawing gives her the chance to explore elements for an eventual set like its characters, architecture, dramatic lighting, music and the design of garments. This is reinforced by research in the relation between functionality and decoration, rooted in her fascination to the Japanese crafting arts. They give her the tools to heighten the sensibility of the audience to materials that can tell stories about intimate relations with locations and people. 

The depicted scenes are often drawn with graphite, charcoal and diluted ink to convey the tactility of textures like wet fur and wetted tiles in a bathhouse. A tactility to itch one’s body in the realm of the imagination. 

The same drawings are used to divide space in her installations, by hanging them from the ceiling as well as being able to walk on them. Here Inez creates a push-and-pull play with the walking reader: How do they position themselves to the story, in terms of scale? How are they charmed?  

Reminiscence, the quiet force of unusual wind gusts and a proud, musically driven march keeps the narrative in her drawings going. The stillness that drawings carry, play an important role to attentively experience the story and development of recurring motifs like the Border Collie, the wild boar and a little girl.

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