大人になれば全ての人を抱きしめることができる

How well can we imagine another’s perspective? I try to see the act itself of imagining another’s perspective, through creating using the structure of self-portraits, with themes of relationships between real and imaginary spaces.

My recent interests are in physical sensations projected onto a physical expression of a flat surface. I explore what kinds of sensations a person living with a heavy body in reality will feel, inside of a light and stable image, and attempt to put this into practice in my pictorial expressions.

Tachibana’s works are based on self-portraits with the relationship between imaginary space and real space as the theme. She creates paintings using the three-dimensional images that arise from a plane, based on installations using paintings that have the mirror image of an exhibition space as motif, or the somatic sensations that exist inside two-dimensional expressions. Through this, she explores the common potentials, of a three-dimensional image replicated in an imaginary space, and the somatic sensation of standing in reality. Her exhibitions are ever so charming, giving a sense of the largeness of scale, and are anticipatory of the Hazuki Tachibana world to be established; she is a young artist whose future I am excited for.

（Kenji Tsuruta）