CHUUSHOUGA

Sompo Museum of Art Face Exhibition 2023 Selected Works (2023.2.17-3.10)

It is one of a group of works that have explored a new new method to express a group image or universe where each individual fits together. This work is an intermediate style between painting and photography.

A universe where diverse people, lives, and minds live, or

Diversity is the fundamental principle of life evolution.

Or, I want art and culture to be something that many people can enjoy, not for some privileges.

Paintings drawn with high exposure, taken as photographs, and UV printed on canvas (painting materials: canvas and paper works using oil, acrylic, pencil, charcoal, crayons, etc.)

The reason I chose the title “CHUUSHOUGA” is because challenging new possibilities for abstract painting expression is one of my challenges, and I want viewers to cherish something of each feeling by avoiding preconceptions about the work by not having actual form/content in the title. It's about what kind of pictures that person likes or dislikes, what they feel or don't feel anything, I think pictures are both my mirror and the viewer's mirror, and I think it's an important experience to know the depths of myself.