Fumiya Odagawa : Someone called my name from my memory
Oct 17 - Nov 3, 2025
PRESS RELEASE:
この度THE LOOP GALLERYは、2025年10月17日（金）から11月3日（月）まで、Colony Minami Aoyama（東京・南青山）にて、小田川史弥による個展《Someone called my name from my memory》を開催いたします。
小田川史弥は、日常のささやかな瞬間を、幻想的でありながらも憂いを帯びた独特の世界観で描きます。モチーフとなる人物や動物、風景は、小田川自身の経験や旅の中で目にした光景に基づき、断片的な印象や心の痕跡がコラージュのように混ざり合い、ひとつの風景として構成されています。
また、小田川の作品には、日本画で培われた繊細な感覚が息づいています。余白や間を活かした画面構成、緩やかに視線が流れる構図、そして滲むように重ねられた淡い色彩は、絵画空間に静かな物語を宿します。
「誰かと親密になるとき、同時にどこかで別の誰かが遠ざかっていくような感覚」に惹かれると語る小田川の作品には、関係の儚さと、それを包み込むような優しさが同居しています。本展タイトル《Someone called my name from my memory》が象徴するように、私たちは絵画の前で、遠い記憶の中にいる誰かの呼び声を聴き、忘れていた感情や時間と再び出会うのです。
THE LOOP GALLERY is pleased to present Someone called my name from my memory, a solo exhibition by Fumiya Odagawa.
The exhibition will be held from October 17 (Fri) to November 3 (Mon), 2025, at Colony Minami Aoyama in Tokyo.
Fumiya Odagawa depicts the quiet fragments of everyday life through a uniquely poetic world imbued with both fantasy and melancholy. The figures, animals, and landscapes that appear in his paintings are based on personal experiences and scenes he has encountered during his travels. These fragmented impressions and emotional residues are layered like a collage, merging into a single pictorial landscape.
His works carry the subtle sensibility cultivated through his training in Nihonga (Japanese-style painting). His compositions embrace blank space and gentle intervals; the viewer’s gaze drifts softly across the surface, while delicately overlapping translucent hues give rise to a serene, contemplative narrative.
Odagawa has spoken of being drawn to “the feeling that when I become close to someone, another person somewhere seems to drift away.” His paintings embody both the fragility of human relationships and a tender warmth that gently embraces that transience. As suggested by the exhibition title, Someone called my name from my memory, before Odagawa’s paintings we seem to hear the faint call of someone from a distant memory—encountering once again the emotions and moments we had long forgotten.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
誰かと知り合い親密になるとき、同時にどこかで別の誰かが遠ざかっていくような感覚に惹かれます。
私の作品は何気ない日々の出来事をモチーフしており、それらの作品では説明的な表現をできるだけ避けています。必要な物語は作品の中に生まれる余白や不確かさと、人物の細かい動きなどに隠されているのです。そうした風景や人物には、意識の外で移ろう季節や人間関係の憂いと情緒が宿っています。
私は制作の途中、モチーフになった多くの思い出と今を反芻しながら、幸福と共に不安も引き寄せます。そして私は何かを忘れて失う不安を抱えながら、手放した時に生まれるその静かな余白に、心が落ち着き満ちていくとも思うのです。モチーフになった思い出は日が経つごとに今とのずれが生まれます。私は沢山の変化の中で幸福や不安の矛盾の美しさに惹かれながら、その記憶の中に自分だけがひっそりと佇んでいるように思えるのです。
I am intrigued by the subtle feeling that when I grow close to someone, another person quietly drifts away.
My works draw inspiration from the quiet, ordinary moments of daily life. Rather than depicting them directly, I aim to evoke what exists in between—through pauses, gestures, and the subtle tension that fills the space around the figures. Within these scenes, emotions and the transience of human relationships seem to linger, much like the passing of seasons.
In my painting process, I often revisit memories that have shaped who I am, observing how they shift in relation to the present. Through this reflection, I experience both joy and unease: the comfort of remembering and the uneasiness of loss. Yet within the calm that follows release, I often find a quiet sense of resolution.
Over time, the memories that once guided me slowly fall out of rhythm with the present. Within this distance, I am drawn to the delicate beauty of contradiction—the coexistence of presence and absence, happiness and uncertainty.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
1996 神奈川県生まれ
2018 東京藝術大学 絵画科日本画専攻 卒業
2020 東京藝術大学 大学院日本画専攻 修了
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