"If what is called life is recorded only narratively and cannot be presented, how such a record is exhibited in the art space without distorting its qualities. Is it possible? In many cases, art documentation is presented in the context of the installation, but the installation is not only the images and texts, other objects installed on the spot, but also the space of the installation itself.

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   It is an art form that plays a decisive role. This space is not abstract or neutral, but is itself a form of life. Thus, the documentation is an act of writing oneself into a particular space. Forming as an installation is not an act of neutral exhibition, but an act of storytelling in the dimension of time, so to speak, an act of writing to life, "said *Boris Grois.

 

　* Boris Groys "Art in the Biopolitical Era-From Art Works to Art Documents"

　　(2002, via installationia-blog)

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   -"The" is now Writing- 

    First, Kariya points out the life, existence, and consciousness as three compositions in the act of ① "writing." ② News articles and events that represent the background at the time of production are used to define the work. ③ Its existence is realized in the act of writing the three letters "the is now'' emanating from "consciousness". The three characters represent symbols, materiality, and the act of writing, and represent the simultaneity of subconsciousness and consciousness, their embodiment, and are born into the system of life. Its function is that everything indicated by "the" simultaneously leads to meditation of consciousness, creation, and persistence. Using this method as a tool, we can observe and verify the true nature of the virtual landscape of existential social media information.

 

　Kariya presents a record of virtual experiences using the principles of art. The virtual refers to the perspective of “The is now”, which is a temporary encoding of an attachment file that continues to flow without stopping its form and is stored in a temporary frame. 

 

　In extreme terms, THE is no longer THE, the empty view of eternal debate, imagination is creation, and presents the prize itself. Therefore, we encode virtual expressions into everyday encounters. It is an encoding of a statement that is only a pseudo-present. The work is an attachment and explanation of personal beliefs, consciousness, being, or itself. The painting THE, an illusion unconstrained by time and space, becomes one with the three-letter composition “The is now”. In other words, we put our immortal future into practice in the present moment.

 

   -About The Composition-
　"“THE” is now is the cord that connects everything. Each of the three characters is an independent referent, a uniquely created entity, and a word spirit that connects intentions. Three letters are a structure in which the trinity of “subject, phenomenon, and existence” is simultaneously realized. Kariya experiences the present infinitely in the act of description. Nature, phenomena, and existence are all one, floating in an eternal and unreachable imaginary space. The constructs “the, now, is” are tools for intention, creation, and observation of action. Intentions work on the unconscious through repetition of descriptions and actions. We are powerful conscious beings. Intended wishes are realized through repeated remembrance of practical actions. The virtual image of the real world is created into a detailed and emotionally moving scene.

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   -About The Face Sutra-
   The work is to observe, presented as a "structure". The front side is the explanation of the background on the back side, and the back side is the layer from which the audience observes. It is a device that shows the superficial aspect of structure. The explanation that structure is also a story of superficiality, and that a story is also a story of informationality, invites explanation. It is an illusion of how to reflect it to the receptor. Figuratively, the process of production, called "narrative", is left on the surface "deliberately" as a painterly trace of writing. Furthermore, "work quality" is presented as a process of action or an explanation of life. There, the relationship between the many things involved in the production process, things and events, in other words, everything in the world, and the threads that pull them all together will test the perspective of the observer.

 

    -About The Armory Piece-
   Kariya added the statements "Law and Order / His" to the exhibition of additional works at the 2019 Armory Show. His paintings come with a myriad of shackles, backgrounds, support of all beings. The following definition is presented there. What is called "wrong", "correct", "accidental" or "necessary" is just a manmade sign. All at the same time is described in this phrase "the now is". Kariya examines the basis of the dialectic of creation, which goes back and forth between objective and subjective, artificial concepts and realistic mechanisms in the structure of creation and fiction.

  At the solo exhibition "Archetype" this spring, it was a enlarged photo documented of a "face of the time" exhibit, as apart of show in which the audience was asked to wear a face mask arbitrarily, but the exhibition was closed early with the arrival of COVID19 as April Fool. The enlarged image source of the face is a cutout and pasted on the seed, that was randomly selected from a daily newspaper articles.

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   Everything is inevitably exposed. It also includes what you do right or wrong. If the audience happens to encounter a three-letter gap that they find by chance, that gap may be the three letters of prayer if we can tolerate the mistakes of the brushes of the criminals in society, as if we were to encounter the drips of the paintings that we happen to see.