7-28 Fri. — 07-31 Mon., 2023
Hanako Kimura / Masaharu Shin / kinwin / Chen Jing-hyung / nelku
PAGIC Gallery is pleased to present the group show “SUILO” in Kitahama, Osaka.
Four artists with roots in Japan and abroad, including Taiwan, will gather in Kitahama, Osaka.
SUILO—waterways were urban arteries that transported goods and connected people.
Even after industrialization, which gradually handed over this role to subsequent technologies, waterways have shown us that they are indeed connected, transcending the boundaries between towns and cities, countries and nations, and mountains and oceans.
Even today, when information is transmitted by cable, nostalgic waterways still have the power to draw people to them, giving us an intuitive sense of openness and joy.
SUILO presents artworks with limitless power, like waterways that can float even the heaviest of materials and reach the farthest places.
Artists
HANAKO KIMURA
Born in Kyoto, currently lives in Osaka.
Graduated from Doshisha University, Department of Aesthetics and Art Theory, Faculty of Letters.
Kimura focuses on touching the gray zone that lies between the two extremes of “existence/non-existence” and “different/same.” She develops conceptual works that incorporate a sense of the times.
In recent years, she has not limited herself to photography. Still, she has also been involved in three-dimensional works and installations.
Masaharu Shin
Born in 1996 in Osaka, Japan
Completed with M.A. at the Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School in 2021
Shin explores the significance of art in society.
He is motivated by a genuine interest in what changes have occurred up to the present day and how artists have evolved their thinking and expression. This intuitive and improvisational work is built on a foundation of rational thought that assembles facts.
kinwin
Born in 1982 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Graduated from Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School in 2001
Graduated from Design and Arts, Dayeh University in 2005
In today’s society, speed is needed to satisfy various needs, and there is a sense of urgency about people, things, and events. Kinwin believes that by slowing down, searching deep into our hearts, and questioning our fundamental selves, we can make everything meaningful because people have the desired happiness.
Although all of this may seem at odds with each other, the concept of “sacrifice” that lies within and beyond the concepts of right and wrong gives the viewer dreams and hopes, expressing blessings in a unique and fantastical worldview.
Chen Jingheng
Born in 1996 in Taiwan
Graduated from Hsing Wu University
Something cultivated through the interaction between Taiwanese pop culture and temple culture has taken shape one after another in the creation of the “Happy Birds Days” series.
The concepts of the series are “Creation,” “Positivity,” “Cooperation,” and “Lovely.”
By drawing artworks from museums and galleries and collaborating with his worldview and various life scenes, he energetically creates artworks that can “make everyone even happier.”
*A show by Eunoia will be held at the same venue. Please enjoy it as well.
nelku
Graduated from Bunka Fashion College in 2018
Nelku changes her residence every month and travels around the world.
Nelku creates focusing on illustration and animation.
The emotions and memories of people resonate with her and inspire her artwork.
Inspired by empathy for people’s feelings and memories, the series “Memories” is based on photographs of memories and episodes, and the paintings are interspersed with unrealistic motifs associated with them.
The works are somehow nostalgic, even though they are not his own memories.
See Also
AFFORDANCE
by Eunoia
Date & Time
7-28 Fri. — 07-31 Mon., 2023
11:00–19:00 (Last day until 4:00 p.m.)
Venue
KITAHAMA N GALLERY
(The basement of THE BOLY OSAKA, 1-16, Kitahama 1, Osaka City)