When the leaves turn red and the cicadas end their summer concert, the season of autumn arrives; the overture of November starts. “霜月じゅういちがつ”, “Frost Month” is the Japanese meaning of November, referring to the frost that starts in the month of November. In the beginning of November 2010, IIDA Kiriko’s first Taiwan solo exhibition in Soka Art Center – Taipei takes the audience on a journey to the beginning of winter.

The blank spaces of IIDA Kiriko’s paintings are the same as the spotless white frost covering on the earth in early winter. The color “white” is not colorless to IIDA; instead, white is the most tolerant color, enfolding deepness of color or its temperature with which it embraces every color, just as November relatively contrasts the gradation of other months in the year. IIDA tries to describe the conflict between immortality and the transience of a living thing since she feels the beauty of the conflict. The mother earth is different than what people see when it is buried beneath the covering of white snow; without the mother earth, there can be no beautiful snow scenery, and people cannot move onto the next stage of their lives without going through the month of November. Even though it may not be the leading star of the scene, but its existence is essential. The expressions in the eyes of the characters from IIDA’s work reveal anticipations to the next stage. Although November is the end of the year, yet it foretells the coming of next year and the new hopes it brings along.

Born in 1970 in Hokkaido, Japan, IIDA Kiriko holds many solo exhibitions and participates in major international art fairs such as “Art Taipei 2008”(2008, Taipei), “Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair” (2007&2008, Tokyo), “2009 Young Art Taipei” (2009, Taipei) after graduating from Hokkaido Institute of Design. Her works achieve outstanding performances in every exhibition by carrying a reminiscence and fantastic style, expressing a sense of innocence and hope.

IIDA Kiriko brings the audience a journey of fantasy with her first solo exhibition in Taiwan, appreciate her works slowly, and you will discover a new world in every blank space through her paintings. Soka Art Center – Taipei sincerely invites you to take a walk along with IIDA Kiriko, and step onto the journey in the month of November to move toward to the next spring of your life on the opening reception day on November 6, 2010.