FUKIKO NAKABAYASHI31.10 - 15.11.1978

The mystique of life has always been what Fukiko Nakabayashi from Japan has sought to capture in her work.
The life cycle, the human relationship to the universe, and the space between two extremes — life and death — can become vivid and meaningful, and have equally captivated her.
Life can be described as a line where events are inscribed, where the traditions of older generations and the future of our children are simultaneously represented.
Somewhere on this line of time we now find ourselves.

Two and a half years ago, Fukiko Nakabayashi exhibited her life drawings in lead pencil for the first time in Sweden, at Galerie S:t Petri.
Equally important as the works on the wall was the "void" that arose between the viewer and the image.
According to the artist, this void is filled with life and should be seen as a part of a harmonious whole.

For some time now, she has incorporated stones into her visual world.
Just as life itself has a multi-layered, perhaps multimillion-year history, so too does the stone have a heart that makes possible emotion, love, and spirituality — it contains a deep mysticism.
In the exhibition, the continuity between things in nature and between human beings and nature is revealed through thin pencil lines.
A stone is filled with life lines, and suddenly a line extends from this stone to another, then to a third, and so on.

Fukiko Nakabayashi wants us to realize that some form of magnetic abstraction is what gives life to the “space” between things, between people, between things and people.
The abstract connecting link is as present as that which it connects.

The exhibition is open from October 31 to November 15, 1978, weekdays 3–8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 1–5 p.m.