Maoya Kishi (b.1986 in Osaka, Japan)
Maoya Kishi has an interest in the materials themselves. He works with materials that have no meaning on their own, such as plywood, timber, building materials, blue tarpaulins, styrofoam, and electronic display panels, and creates sculptures and installation works based on his own theories and methods. The works always have forms we have never seen before, and it is as if he is continually searching for the boundary between “material and artwork”. For this exhibition, his dialogue with the AI about “what the world of the future” served as the inspiration for the work, and drawings based on this dialogue are randomly combined and arranged in the works. While the AI’s answers are unpredictable, they also have a humanlike quality, and the process of extracting and reassembling them through reinterpretation is also part of his idea of ”creating something never before seen.”
Maoya Kishi has an interest in the materials themselves. He works with materials that have no meaning on their own, such as plywood, timber, building materials, blue tarpaulins, styrofoam, and electronic display panels, and creates sculptures and installation works based on his own theories and methods. The works always have forms we have never seen before, and it is as if he is continually searching for the boundary between “material and artwork”. For this exhibition, his dialogue with the AI about “what the world of the future” served as the inspiration for the work, and drawings based on this dialogue are randomly combined and arranged in the works. While the AI’s answers are unpredictable, they also have a humanlike quality, and the process of extracting and reassembling them through reinterpretation is also part of his idea of ”creating something never before seen.”
Mika Kasai (b.1989 in Nagano, Japan)
Mika Kasai’s works are collages made from scraps of paper and timber that the artist “finds from around her.” The works are created by cutting empty boxes, paper bags, and leftover timber and fabric from making canvases into various sizes and shapes, painting them with acrylic, and stacking or connecting them. The unique colors and combinations of shapes of her works are never get tired of viewing them. The subjects that she paints are “something else” that are neither specific motifs nor stories, and he reconstructs space and composition on a two-dimensional surface from her own unique perspective. In particular, “looking at things from a bird’s-eye view” is an important point, and the compositions of Nara picture book called “Nara Ehon”, photographs of old Japanese paintings such as a picture scroll called “Emaki” as well as snapshots of landscapes that she has taken herself, are some of the sources of her creativity.
Mika Kasai’s works are collages made from scraps of paper and timber that the artist “finds from around her.” The works are created by cutting empty boxes, paper bags, and leftover timber and fabric from making canvases into various sizes and shapes, painting them with acrylic, and stacking or connecting them. The unique colors and combinations of shapes of her works are never get tired of viewing them. The subjects that she paints are “something else” that are neither specific motifs nor stories, and he reconstructs space and composition on a two-dimensional surface from her own unique perspective. In particular, “looking at things from a bird’s-eye view” is an important point, and the compositions of Nara picture book called “Nara Ehon”, photographs of old Japanese paintings such as a picture scroll called “Emaki” as well as snapshots of landscapes that she has taken herself, are some of the sources of her creativity.