MARIKO KUBO
JP / EN
久保真理子
1992年生まれ。香川で生まれるが、生後5ヶ月でベトナムに転居。以降も2.3年ごとに国内外の転居を繰り返す。
2018年多摩美術大学大学院油画専攻修了。
作品制作のモチベーションは幼少期の経験に由来する。生後すぐから10年以上にわたる度重なる転居から、帰属意識の希薄さやアイデンティティの脆弱さがコンプレックスとなる。悩んでいた時期に、「ものの隙間や空中に浮かぶ顔」を幻視し、その視線に悩みを癒される。
アイデンティティの悩みと、それを消化するために幻視した仮想生物の二つの関係性に興味を惹かれ、その探究のために絵画を制作し、描き表すことを目標とする。以降今日まで、一貫して仮想生物を描く。
絵画による自己（仮想生物）表現を目指し、多摩美術大学の油画科に進学。中村一美に師事し、仮想生物を描き表すにおいての絵画的な技術と、絵との向き合い方を学ぶ。
大学卒業後も制作を続け、絵画の中の仮想生物を通してアイデンティティや自他境界について考え、表現する。継続して描いている油画に加えて、「宙に浮かぶ生物図」として、透明なガラス板にドローイングを印刷した作品も制作を開始した。
JP / EN
Mariko Kubo
Born in 1992. Born in Kagawa, but moved to Vietnam when she was 5 months old. Since then, she has repeatedly moved every 2.3 years, both in Japan and abroad.
Graduated from Tama Art University in 2018 with a major in oil painting.
Her motivation for creating artwork stems from her childhood experiences. From birth to more than 10 years of repeated relocations, she developed a complex of a weak sense of belonging and a fragile identity. During this troubled period, she had visions of "faces floating in the gaps between things and in the air," and her worries were soothed by these gazes.
Intrigued by the relationship between her identity troubles and the virtual creatures that she had visions of in order to digest them, she set his sights on creating and depicting paintings in order to explore the relationship between the two. Since then until today, she has consistently painted virtual creatures.
Aiming to express herself (virtual creatures) through painting, she entered the oil painting department of Tama Art University. Studied under Kazumi Nakamura and learned painting techniques and how to deal with painting in order to depict virtual creatures.
After graduating from the university, she continued to work on her artwork, thinking about and expressing identity and the boundary between self and others through the virtual creatures in her paintings. In addition to her ongoing oil paintings, she has begun to create works on transparent glass plates with drawings printed on them as "Creatures Floating in the Air".