スクリプカリウ落合安奈『ひ か り の う つ わ』
Book Design：須山悠里
発行：赤々舎
Size：H255mm × W189mm
Page：240 pages
Binding：Cloth Hardcover
Published in April 2026
ISBN：978-4-86541-225-3
¥ 7,000＋tax
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About Book
わたしの旅のはじまりは、あなたの旅のはじまり ──
もう一つの母国で過ごした、ひと巡りの季節の記録
スクリプカリウ落合安奈、初の写真集『ひかりのうつわ』。
本作は、作家の父の故郷であるルーマニアを舞台に、約一年にわたる滞在のなかで撮影された写真によって構成されています。日本とルーマニアという二つの母国のあいだで、自身の根を探り続けてきた落合にとって、この旅は、これまで深く触れることのなかったもう一つの故郷へと向かう、はじめての本格的な歩みでした。
自身の内側にありながら機能していない感覚 ── 彼女が「透明な臓器」と呼ぶもの。その臓器に血を通わせたのは、産みの母でも血縁上の父でもなく、この旅路で出会った、たくさんの「母たち、父たち」でした。土地に根ざした人々の営み、信仰、自然との関わりのなかで重ねられた時間が、経験と記憶となって、少しずつ内側に巡りはじめます。
冬の光に包まれた静かな気配、春のはじまりを告げる花々と祈り、夏の陽光のもとでのびやかに続く営み、秋の実りとともに深まる時間。季節をめぐるなかで出会う風景や人々は、それぞれの物語を宿しながら、土地に生きる営みのリズムを静かに伝えてきます。人の引いた境界にかかわらず降り注ぐ光のもとで、それらは等しく結び合わされていきます。
この旅路で出会った人々との時間、そして土地が宿す記憶が内側に注がれていく『ひかりのうつわ』は、ひとりの作家が自身の起源に触れていく過程であると同時に、私たちそれぞれの内にある見えないうつわをも照らし出す記録といえるでしょう。
表紙の布装の質感、活版印刷の奥行き、本文に静かに留められたひとひらの詩文。ひとりひとりの手に、魂に、触れる一冊として、ここに送り出します。
“この一冊に収められた、5つの季節をめぐる旅路に散りばめられた光のイメージは、まるで手のひらとその「5本の指」の中にあるかのように、はるか遠くに広がる一つの世界を包み込んでいる。“
──アナマリア・イウガ（ルーマニア国立農民博物館 民俗学者）
「季節と伝統をめぐる旅路」より
“自分の透明な臓器が──何満たされることのない魂が──
何によって色を与えられるのかわからぬまま、彼女は見えない大海をかき分けてゆく。
そこで出会ったたくさんの「あなた」との出会いから得た手触りを、
一つ一つ確かめる。そうやって文字通り「ひかりのうつわ」となって、
たくさんの小さな窓を開き、「わたし」という器を満たしていった。“
──竹内万里子（批評家・作家）
「光のあるほうへ」より
V e s s e l s o f L i g h t
Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai
The beginning of my journey
Is the beginning of yours
In exploring ways of put down roots in her two homelands, Japan and Romania, Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai has created works including installations, photographies, videos, and paintings, all centered on the theme of “the bond between land and people.
Fundamental to this continuous practice is attention directed not only toward human beings, but toward all living beings—toward life itself—as well as an earnest desire to connect ‘I’ and ‘you.’
Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai has two homelands—Japan and Romania—but having been born and raised in Japan, she knew little about Romania. However, living in Japan’s strongly conformity-driven society, she was often subjected to unfair judgments based on her appearance that left her in an uncertain, suspended state between the two that was both and neither. Why was she made to feel this way? Beginning from those kinds of personal questions, her interest gradually shifted toward the social structure itself that brought about such situations, which, in a sense, was a very natural progression. It was exactly in order to believe that ‘I’ was not alone, that she had to hold fast to the connections between herself and the world around her, and to feel, no matter what, the continuity of life in its many forms—and so that
‘I’ might also be ‘we.’
It took Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai five seasons, starting with winter 2022, to feel at home in the country where her father had been born: Romania. Her decision to come to Romania in December 2022 was a courageous act: the upheavals caused by the pandemic were being experienced all over the world, but besides this, there was a feeling of insecurity in the air as a consequence of the state of war in Ukraine, so close to the Romanian border.
All Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai’s images are luminous. They show people, things, and places, seemingly in a celebration of the present, but also of the past: testimonies to the meaningful passage of time. In the first place, in the photographs we can admire in this book, we see portraits of people, grandfathers and grannies who have lived a long life, but also children and mothers with children in their arms, celebrating the time fragmented by some custom.
Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai also lets her gaze linger on the objects that make up the landscape and the living creatures that populate it. In other cases, people are presented through the unobtrusive gestures they make: a hand raised to greet someone in the distance. There are old photographs from which grandfathers and great grandfathers look out at us as from a story, as if they were carrying on a conversation with us, the viewers.
We witness an inevitable passing of time and a breaking up of light into droplets of rain or flakes of snow, as in a dialogue that speaks about yesterday, but also about tomorrow. It is a dialogue involving man and nature too, via all its elements.
As if opening her eyes to the world for the very first time, she receives the light and colors she encounters simply as they are. She is looking toward the light that precedes the ‘I.’ It is a gaze as unguarded as that of an infant, through a camera that seems almost an extension of herself.
“V e s s e l s o f L i g h t” gathers the time spent with people encountered along this journey, and the memories held within the lands themselves, as they are quietly poured inward. The book traces a process in which a single artist approaches her own origins, while at the same time illuminating the invisible vessels that reside within each of us.
The tactile cloth-bound cover, and a fragment of the artist’s poem—hand-applied and gently placed between the photographs—invite an intimate encounter with the work. Conceived as a book that can be felt in the hands and resonate with the spirit of each reader, this volume is released into the world as a quiet yet profound offering.
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“The images of light contained in this volume, distributed over the five seasons of Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai’s journey, encompass, as in the palm of a hand (with its five fingers!), a world that lies far faraway, a world of story, recounted through fragments of time and of life.”
── Anamaria Iuga（Ethnologist, National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania）
Excerpts from the text “A journey around seasons and tradition”
“Without knowing what might give color to her transparent organ—the unfulfilled soul—Scripcariu-Ochiai makes her way through the unseen ocean. One by one, she revisits the tangible impressions she gained through her encounters with each ‘you’ she met there. In this way, she literally becomes a ‘vessel of light,’ opening many small windows to gradual fill the vessel that is ‘I’.”
── Mariko Takeuchi (Writer）
Excerpts from the text “Toward the Light”
Related Exhibition
スクリプカリウ落合安奈「ひ か り の う つ わ」
会期：2026年4月4日（土）〜 5月2日（土）
時間：13:00〜19:00（土は17:00まで）
会場：The Third Gallery Aya（大阪市西区江戸堀1-8-24 若狭ビル2・4F ）
火：アポイント制／日・月休み
入場無料
アーティストトーク
4月25日（土）17:30〜19:00
Artist Information
スクリプカリウ落合安奈
1992年埼玉県生まれ。
日本とルーマニアの 2 つの母国に根を下ろす方法の模索をきっかけに、「土地と人の結びつき」というテーマを持つ。国内外各地で土着の祭や民間信仰などの文化人類学的なフィールドワークを重ね、近年はその延長線として霊長類学の分野にも取り組みながら、インスタレーション、写真、映像、絵画などマルチメディアな作品を制作。「時間や距離、土地や民族を越えて物事が触れ合い、地続きになる瞬間」を紡ぐ。
東京藝術大学油画専攻を首席、美術学部総代で卒業。同大学大学院グローバルアートプラクティス専攻修了。同大学大学院彫刻専攻博士課程修了。
東京都写真美術館(2025)、福岡市美術館(2025)、上野の森美術館(2025)、ポーラミュージアムアネックス(2025)、埼玉県立近代美術館(2023、2020-2021)、ルーマニア国立現代美術館(2020)、東京都美術館(2019)、世界遺産のフランスのシャンボール城(2018)やベトナムのホイアン(2019)など世界各地で作品を発表。
主な受賞歴は、ARTnews Japan「30 ARTISTS U35 2022」、「TERRADA ART AWARD 2021」 鷲田めるろ賞、「Forbes Japan 30 UNDER 30 」2020、「Y.A.C. RESULTS 2020」SWITCHLAB / ルーマニアなど。令和4年度公益財団法人ポーラ美術振興財団在外研修員としてルーマニアで活動。
Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai
Born in 1992 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai is a mixedmedia artist who sensitively explores ways to take root in her two home countries of Japan and Romania under the theme, “connections between land and people.” She performs cultural and anthropological field work including documentation of indigenous festivals and folk religions in various parts of Japan and abroad. In recent years, she has been involved in the field of primatology as an extension of her work.
Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in Oil Painting at the top of her class and as a valedictorian of the Faculty of Fine Arts. She also completed an MA in Global Art Practice and Ph.D. in Sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts.
She has had exhibition in Japan and internationally: at The TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM (2025), Fukuoka Art Museum (2025), The Ueno Royal Museum (2025), POLA MUSEUM ANNEX (2025), The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan (2023, 2020-2021); The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Romania (2020); Hoi An, Vietnam (2019); Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2019); Chambord, Paris, France (2017) etc.
Major awards include ARTnews Japan “30 ARTISTS U35 2022”, “TERRADA ART AWARD 2021” Washida Meruro Prize, “Forbes Japan 30 UNDER 30” 2020, “Y.A.C. RESULTS 2020” SWITCHLAB / Romania etc. Currently working in Romania as an overseas researcher of the Pola Art Foundation in 2022.
