Drawings from Dharamsala : Report: Two solo exhibitions at LAMO, Leh, Ladakh

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Towards the last two months of my last visit to India in the spring of 2012, I encountered the Tibetan community in exile in India experiencing painful news of their people self-immolating in fire one after another in China-occupied Tibet. My experiences in the past visits in India (drawing a cremation site in Varanasi, documenting fire pits, cremation alters, and contemplating on life and death around fire) synchronized with this particular movement, an extreme way of ‘offering’ their bodies to ‘fire’ for asking freedom and peace.I could not help drawing large and small drawings as emotional response and with a sense of mourning.

After coming back to Vancouver, the self-immolation kept happening and I felt that my personal and professional task is not finished.

I have come back to India to continue to document and draw under the same theme. tomoyoihaya@hotmail.com

2 December 2024

Report: Two solo exhibitions at LAMO, Leh, Ladakh

The exhibitions were on display from October 11 to October 31 2024.

Please refer the caption pasted below and view the installation shots:

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Hello friends:

Kenji Najima and I will have two separate presentations at Ladakh Arts and Media Organization(LAMO) in Leh, Ladakh, India.

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Kenji Najima will show a set of his woodblock prints and a body of new works that he created while his stay in Shakti Village. There he stayed with a local family and went to Takthok Monastery daily to meditate.

His new works will be as a result of the experience, a contemplation of human life.

Tomoyo Ihaya will show a set of old works created while her 18 visits to this vision, mixed media works that were shown in Japan and Taiwan, and a new body of drawings of the portraits of her close female friends.

In addition to each works, a set of collaborative works will be shown too.

Please read each artist’s shirt description on the Evite attached.

If you are in Leh, please do come to the opening 🙏🏼

We would like to express our gratitude to Director Monisha Ahmad ji, and everyone at LAMO for their heartfelt supports 🙏🏼

この度　ラダックのレーにあるラダック・アート•アンド・メディア・オルガニゼーション(LAMO)で、同郷の作家さんの名嶋憲児さんと、

それぞれ個展を同時開催させていただくことになりました。

名嶋さんは2019年にラモで木版画を教えてから2回目の訪問です。そのワークショップが大変好評でウェルカム・カムバックです。わたしはしつこく通って18回目の訪問👀、個展は10年ぶりです。

名嶋さんは、1998から2000年頃に制作した木版画とともに、九月にシャクティ村で制作したミックスト・メディアの新作を展示します。

滞在中は村の家族のところにホームステイしながら毎日近くのお寺で瞑想しながら制作しました。

人が生きることについての探索がテーマです。

私は18回の滞在中、後に制作した絵、近年、韓国、台湾、日本で展示したミックスト・メディアの作品とともに、今回制作した(終わってません)親愛なる女性たちの肖像画を展示します。

命や水、自然の循環、棲むということが制作のテーマです。