Inland sea 2015 /TELENS

PINKŪKAI – The Pilgrim of Release

Faux fur, wood, fabric, photography (performance installation)

Variable size (approx. 100 × 150 cm per photographic print)

2025

PINKŪKAI – The Pilgrim of Release is an interdisciplinary work exploring the freedom of consciousness through the transformation of religious form.
Inspired by the Japanese pilgrimage tradition (Ohenro), this project questions the modern tendency to pursue spiritual “rewards” through competition and conformity.

In this work, the artist wears a vivid pink costume made of faux fur, wood, and fabric — a visual paradox that merges devotion and absurdity, reverence and rebellion.
By reimagining the figure of the pilgrim, GABOMI seeks to release faith from its rigid structures, inviting viewers to confront their own biases toward sacredness, gender, and power.

Rather than criticizing tradition, PINKŪKAI gently “liberates” it — turning ritual into self-reflection.
The pink color becomes a symbol of inner softness, vulnerability, and renewal, suggesting that enlightenment may be found not in renunciation, but in the fullness of living.

Through this performative and photographic act, GABOMI continues her ongoing inquiry into human consciousness —
how belief and awareness coexist, and how the visible form of faith can be deconstructed into color, gesture, and presence.

This work belongs to GABOMI’s broader exploration of the boundary between the inner and outer worlds,
where art becomes both a mirror and a release.

Group Exhibitions

Art & Craft Exhibition “Ido Atelier”
Oct 9–21, Takamatsu Orne 1F
A group exhibition organized by Atelier M.
Three local artists created and exhibited on site, transforming the space daily through live production and audience engagement.

Media

Art Magazine"Pen"

雑誌Penにて掲載されました。

写真作品TELENSが Pen(2018年4月号)70/71Pにて紹介されました。

GABOMI's artwork ‘TELENS’ was featured in the lifestyle and art magazine Pen in April 2018. ‘TELENS’ is a newly coined word by GABOMI, made up of the Japanese word “TE” (手), meaning hands, and “LENS”. ‘TELENS’ is a unique pinhole photography technique that utilizes bare hands, resulting in predominantly red color images due to the presence of myoglobin, a muscle pigment.

In ‘TELENS’ photography, a body part is overlaid onto a landscape to express the theme of the past in the photographer's memory. Through ‘TELENS’, GABOMI seeks to express the mist-like transience of human life.

Kochi 2023 /TELENS

GABOMI.

GABOMI.（レイガボミ）

写真家であり、ビジュアルアーティストです。日本を拠点に活動しています。
私の関心は「人間の意識」や「見るという行為」そのものにあります。
写真や絵画を通じて、言葉になる前の思考や感情を、光や形として可視化しています。

私の撮影・写真作品は、加工を一切行わず、そのままの光の状態で作品を完成させます。
2008年に独学で写真を始め、2012年には写真集『ことでん仏生山工場』をAkaaka Art Publishingより全国発売。
2014年、水戸芸術館現代美術ギャラリーで個展「Criterium 89 GABOMI」を開催。
2016年にはSHISEIDO ART EGG 10に選出され、資生堂ギャラリー（東京・銀座）で個展「in/visible GABOMI.」を開催しました。
2017年にはTELENS作品「Inland Sea 2015」が佐藤食品工業株式会社に収蔵。

私の撮影技法 TELENS／手レンズは、
カメラのレンズを使わず、自らの“手”をレンズとして光を捉える、世界で唯一の写真技法です。
人間の感覚をそのまま記録装置とするこの方法は、
「見る」と「感じる」の境界を曖昧にし、知覚の根源を探る行為でもあります。

2018年以降はペインティングも再開し、
光・思考・記憶・意識をテーマに幅広い表現を展開。
また、近年は「着る作品」として身体と空間の関係を探る
インスタレーション作品《ピンクーカイ》を発表しました。

香川県を拠点とするアーティスト・コレクティブ「Atelier M」としても活動し、
2024年「POP-UP Group Exhibition」（TOYO KITCHEN STYLE 高松 Kartell）、
2025年「Ben Yamaguchi Clay Art Exhibition “Setouchi Island–Wearing Cat”」、
「Art & Craft Exhibition “Ido Atelier”」、「The Sunrise Hotel – 311」などを企画・出展。
アートと日常の境界を超え、意識と身体のあいだに生まれる“見えない風景”を探求しています。

GABOMI.

GABOMI. is a photographer and visual artist based in Japan.
Her work explores human consciousness and the act of seeing itself, visualizing thoughts and emotions before they take the form of language.
She creates her photographs without any post-processing, capturing light in its purest, untouched state.

Starting as a self-taught photographer in 2008, she published her photo book “Kotoden Busshoyama Factory” with AKAAKA Art Publishing in 2012.
She held a solo exhibition “Criterium 89 GABOMI” at the Contemporary Art Center, ART TOWER MITO in 2014,
and was selected for SHISEIDO ART EGG 10 in 2016, presenting “in/visible GABOMI.” at the Shiseido Gallery in Tokyo.
In 2017, her TELENS work “Inland Sea 2015” was collected by Sato Foods Co., Ltd.

Her unique photographic method, TELENS (Hand Lens),
uses her own hands instead of a camera lens — a one-of-a-kind technique found nowhere else in the world.
By turning the human body itself into a recording device, TELENS blurs the boundary between vision and sensation,
inviting reflection on the nature of perception and awareness.

Since 2018, she has expanded her practice into painting,
exploring themes of light, memory, and consciousness.
She also presented the installation “Pinkū-Kai”, a series of wearable artworks that explore the relationship between body and space.

As part of the artist collective Atelier M in Kagawa, Japan,
she has organized and participated in exhibitions including the “POP-UP Group Exhibition” (TOYO KITCHEN STYLE Takamatsu, 2024),
the “Ben Yamaguchi Clay Art Exhibition – Setouchi Island: Wearing Cat”,
the Art & Craft Exhibition “Ido Atelier”, and “The Sunrise Hotel – 311” (Takamatsu Orne, 2025).
Her recent works continue to question perception, presence, and the invisible landscapes that arise between body and mind.