Dawn + Drawn

biscuit gallery, a contemporary art commercial gallery located on Shibuya Ward Shoto Culture Street (Shibuya Ward Shoto), will hold a solo exhibition “Dawn + Drawn” by contemporary artist Miyu Yamada. The exhibition period runs from November 23, 2023 (Thursday) to December 10, 2023 (Sunday).

An opening party will be held on the first day, November 23, 2023 (Thursday, National Holiday) from 15:00-19:00.

Miyu Yamada solo exhibition “Dawn + Drawn” main visual

In Yamada’s first solo exhibition at biscuit gallery, new works will be presented across three floors. Please look forward to works and exhibition compositions that reveal many new aspects of artist Miyu Yamada.

Artist Statement

In the sweltering heat with stifling air, seeking coolness and quietness, I began creating mostly from sunset and sometimes continued until dawn. I will be exhibiting works created primarily during the time when the advancing night breaks and the sky’s color just begins to take on a faint hue.

Tracing back my memories related to “sand,” which I use as one of my materials, what remains in my memory is the sand in a flowerpot at my childhood home that I saw when I was young. Though flowerpots are small, that small world viewed from the urban perspective sparked my interest in nature.

Drawings I make daily on the sandy beach near my studio become blurred or disappear the next day due to wind, rain, and tidal changes. Sand, which does not retain the same form, is felt as something simple, indefinite, and ambiguous. Though so light and small that it easily swirls up, when placed on canvas, the resistance I feel and the grainy texture created when mixed with paint is felt as certain resistance, spurring the primal desire to draw.

Recently, my consciousness has shifted from creating works (object-like things) to the act of “drawing.” From this, I took two words—”dawn” and “drawn”—and titled this exhibition “Dawn + Drawn.”

I hope you will enjoy it at your leisure.

Miyu Yamada

Artist Profile

Miyu Yamada

Born 1994 in Tokyo
Graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University Faculty of Law

Creates works that project those living in the interstices of the times and social currents. Capturing the unique sense of floating and elusiveness that contemporary people possess, she employs sand-like materials as an intermediary existence between urban and natural environments.
She develops a series that raises lines drawn from drawings and works using pastels.
The creatures that appear are depicted simultaneously as reflections of herself observing a society intersecting with rapidly changing times, and as the viewer themselves.

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