Whitestone Ginza New Gallery is pleased to announce a dual exhibition by Rebecca Bernau and Hitomi Endo, entitled “Unthought known”.
Faceless portraits and outlines of the forest against the light might have seen incoherent, but they mutually resonate below the surface.
The term “Unthought known” was suggested by psychologist, Christopher Bollas in the 1980s, indicating “a state of having a vague memory but being unable to think about it”. It is a phenomenon that underlies Freud’s “trauma”, in which primal experiences before forming consciousness will have a significant impact on our later life. The key is a lasting mood at that time, and aesthetic experience in the infant stage will be counted as one of the representative elements which consist of “Unthought known”.
