このたびぎゃらりい秋華洞では2026年3月27日（金）から4月4日（土）まで「真島直子《自問自》」を開催いたします。

Shukado Gallery is pleased to present “Naoko Majima: Jimonji – Self-Questioning”, on view Friday, March 27 - Saturday, April 4, 2026.

伊勢湾台風で目の当たりにした「死」を原体験に、生命や性、魑魅魍魎の世界を描き続けてきた真島直子（1944年生）。幻視をテーマとした「顕神の夢」展でも注目を集めました。本展「自問自」では、1994–95年に制作された未発表の紙本ペン水彩作品を中心に、〈私〉とは何かを問い続ける、答えのない思索の軌跡を辿ります。

Born in 1944, Naoko Majima has continued to depict worlds of life, sexuality, and chimerical spirits, drawing from her formative encounter with “death” during the Isewan Typhoon. She also garnered significant attention in the exhibition Kenshin no Yume (Dreams of Apparition), which explored themes of visionary experience.
This exhibition, Self-Questioning (Jimonji), centers on previously unpublished pen and watercolor works on paper created between 1994 and 1995, tracing an open-ended trajectory of contemplation that persistently asks: What is the “self”?

■ 関連展示
ヒノギャラリーにて「真島直子《チミモウリョウ乞》」が
3月23日（月）から4月11日（土）まで開催されます。
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Image:
Naoko Majima, “Jimonji 2026-9”, 1994–1995, Watercolor and pen on paper, 40.5 × 32 cm ©︎ Naoko Majima.

内面的な生命のたぎりを、時に毒々しく、時に目を背けたくなるほど鮮烈に描き続けてきた、真島直子の個展を開催いたします。

真島直子は1944年生まれ。シュルレアリストの眞島建三を父に持ち、幼少期より岡本太郎をはじめ、1950〜60年代の戦後美術を代表する芸術家や評論家、文化人たちが集う環境のなかで育ちました。父の背中越しに、時代のうねりを目撃しながら感性を養っていきます。

15歳のとき、伊勢湾台風に遭遇し、「死」と真正面から向き合う体験をします。この出来事を契機に、彼女の内発的なテーマである「死」と「生」、そして「性」がかたちを取り始めました。油彩、水彩、ペン、鉛筆といった平面作品に加え、骸骨を思わせる立体や、どこかセクシャルで死を意識させる鯉など、多様な媒体を通して、自らの内面にのみ存在する表現を追求してきました。ときにそれは下手物と嘲られながらも、揺らぐことはありませんでした。

彼女の作風は、生命そのものといっていいでしょう。「生き物」を写生するという「描写」ではありません。平面も立体も、それ自体が命を持つかのようです。細胞、鯉、精子、性器──さまざまな連想を誘うモティーフが、モノトーンや、ときにサイケデリックな色彩を伴い、生命そのものを生成する。その制作態度は、美しい／美しくないという規範を超え、生命としての人間の根源に迫ります。

本展は現代美術ギャラリー、Hino Galleryとの共催で開催いたします。入船のHino Galleryでは３月２３日月から４月１１日土「チミモウリョウ乞」と題し最新作を展示し、私ども秋華洞では「自問自」と題し、1994〜95年のペン・水彩作品を中心に構成いたします。

http://www.hinogallery.com/2026/3702/

〈私〉とは何か。

自らに向けた問いは、答えを持たぬまま、作品のかたちを取り続けています。

真島直子の現在形を、ぜひ両会場にてご体感ください。

 

We are pleased to present a solo exhibition by Naoko Majima, an artist who has continued to depict the turbulent force of inner life—at times grotesque, at times so vivid as to be almost unbearable to behold.

Born in 1944, Naoko Majima is the daughter of the surrealist painter Kenzo Majima. From early childhood, she grew up surrounded by leading postwar artists, critics, and cultural figures of the 1950s and 1960s, including Taro Okamoto. Witnessing the upheavals of the age through her father’s world, she gradually cultivated her own sensibility.

At the age of fifteen, she experienced the Isewan Typhoon, an event that brought her face to face with death. This experience became a turning point, giving form to the themes that would emerge from within her: death, life, and sexuality. In addition to two-dimensional works in oil, watercolor, pen, and pencil, she has also created sculptural forms suggestive of skeletons, as well as carp that evoke both sexuality and death. Across a wide range of media, Majima has pursued a mode of expression that exists nowhere but within herself. Even when dismissed at times as eccentric or grotesque, her vision has never wavered.

Her artistic style may itself be described as life. She does not “depict” living things in the sense of observation or representation. Whether in two-dimensional or three-dimensional form, her works seem almost to possess life of their own. Cells, carp, sperm, sexual organs—motifs that invite multiple associations—appear in monochrome and, at times, psychedelic color, generating life itself before our eyes. Her artistic practice transcends conventional standards of beauty and ugliness, and confronts the very roots of human existence as life.

This exhibition is jointly organized with Hino Gallery, a contemporary art gallery. At Hino Gallery in Irifune, Majima’s latest works will be presented under the title Chimimoryo-Kou from Monday, March 23 through Saturday, April 11. At Shukado, under the title Jimonji (Self-Questioning), we will focus primarily on pen and watercolor works from 1994–95.

http://www.hinogallery.com/2026/3702/

What is the “self”?

Questions directed toward oneself continue to take shape as works, even without arriving at any answer.

We warmly invite you to experience the present form of Naoko Majima’s art at both venues.