Aichi Triennale 2019

As the title "Conflagration" suggests, the painted sceneries on the seven 15-meter-wide panels depict large explosions. Around the powerful eruptions and massive plumes of smoke, the artist scatters colorful arrays of twinkling rings and stars of light, while the zigzag lines in the backgrounds evoke electromagnetic waves, streaks of lightning, or further explosions that occur elsewhere.
A closer look at the painting style reveals that the works are not simply composed of different color planes, but the artist also employs such techniques as stippling and dripping, or incorporates pieces of glittering foil. Rather than depicting concrete events, the artists explains her painted explosions as being heavily influenced by anime programs she has been watching since she was a little girl, such as the "Gundam" and "Evangelion" series.
Fujiwara utilizes the painting format's own alluring qualities of coloration and composition to usher the super-real effects of explosions into the foregrounds of her works, whereas the process of spending time and effort to paint momentary occurrences results in unfathomable pictures that seem to capture events in which time and space are sublated.