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Hiroyuki Mori

Hiroyuki Mori

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Hiroyuki Mori

May, 1982 Born in Fukuoka
March, 2009 MFA in Art department at Hiroshima City University Graduate School

Concept

Mori mainly uses wrestling as a motif and works with Japanese painting techniques. By using traditional Japanese painting styles and techniques, he attempts to reveal the “stylistic beauty” of the motifs. In addition, wrestlers cultivate a strong body and mind through rigorous daily training. There is a sense of greatness to the figure that even makes one wonder if something sacred resides in it, and by highlighting the magnitude of the figure’s existence, he hopes that it will become a kind of “lucky charm” that will accept the pain and suffering of those who see it.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2019 “MUCHA LIBRE”(HASHI GALLERY・Mexico)
2019 “The German Suplex”(Iwata Syouten gallery, Mie)
2022 “プロレス詣 (Wrestling Pilgrimage)”(OVER ALLs store, Tokyo)
2022 “Grateful Days”(Iwata Syouten gallery, Mie)

​Group Exhibitions
2018 “Beauty of Techniques”(JILL D’ART GALLERY, Aichi)
2018 “ART ASIA 2018″(KINTEX, Korea)
2019 “ART FAIR ASIA / FUKUOKA”(The Okura Fukuoka)
2019 “Christmas exhibition”(s+arts, Tokyo)
2020 “Step Over Art Breaker&(The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo) 
2022 “Royal Jumble”(Shōonji Temple, Tokyo)
2022 “Foreshadowing”(Eslite Gallery, Taiwan)
2022 “ART! ART! OSAKA”(Daimaru Umeda, Osaka)
2022 “ANIMAMIX”(Eslite Gallery, Taiwan)

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Ai Kumehara

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Ai Kumehara

1989 Born in Saitama
2015 MFA in Japanese Painting, Tama Art University 

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2021
“Comfortable Boundaries”, Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO, Tokyo
“Comfortable Boundaries”, Hertz Art Lab, Tokyo

2020
“Comfortable Boundaries”, Itsuki Art Gallery, Tokyo
“The Sign of Beyond”, Funen Art Academy, Odense, Denmark

2018
“Foamed Garden”, Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo

​Group Exhibitions
2023

biscuit gallery 2nd anniversary exhibition “grid2”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo

2022

“ONE ART TAIPEI”, The Sherwood Taipei, Taiwan
“Collection of rainbows”, Gallery Chokodo, Gifu

2021
“TECHNICOLORS”, Space O, Tokyo
“CIRCLE”, Itsuki Art Gallery, Tokyo

2019
“Twelfth Lunar Month”, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo
“Toy Box”, Gallery Chokodo, Gifu

2018
“FIELD OF NOW”, GINZA YOKYO HALL, Tokyo

2017
“NEXT ART”, MATSUYA GINZA DEPARTMENT STORE, Tokyo
“Achievement Exhibition”, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
“Exhibition of Young Japanese and Chinese Artists”, Yunjian Gallery, Shanghai, China

2016
“The telling flower”, FEI ART MUSEUM, Yokohama
“2016 Byobo Exhibition”, TOKYO GINZA ART MUSEUM, Tokyo

Awards

2016 34th “Ueno Royal Museum Award” First prize
2015 26th “Garyuzakura Award” Grand prize
2013 “ALBION AWARDS 2013” First prize
          13th “Satou Taisei Award” Encouragement prize

Public Collections

Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Sato Sakura Museum, Tokyo
Nichinancho Museum, Tottori
Yunjian Gallery, Shanghai, China

Concept

After creating a sketch with highly transparent paints, she applies thin Japanese paper over the entire screen and colors it with rock paints. Once the screen is reset to translucent, the boundaries of colors and shapes are blurred, and the depicted objects are abstracted. The artist depicts animals on the screen as “something suggestive” based on his experience of confronting animals that suddenly appeared in the places where he stayed where people had disappeared due to the lockdown caused by the coronavirus.

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宮﨑 菖子|Shoko Miyazaki

宮﨑 菖子|Shoko Miyazaki

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宮﨑 菖子 / Shoko Miyazaki

1997 Born in Yamaguchi, Japan

2020 B.F.A. in Western Painting, Seian University of Art and Design
2022 M.F.A. in Oil Painting, Musashino Art University”

Concept

I aim to fill the surface with paint through a fixed set of rules. I am focused on the process of painting rather than the aesthetic outcome or its exhibition. For me, the importance of a work lies in its existence as a physical vestige of the painting process.

Exhibitions

Solo

2025 HOUSE, STAGU HOUSE, Chiba

2023 Etcetera, gallery Dalston, Tokyo

2022 works, GALLERY b.TOKYO, Tokyo

2019 Crossing and Cutting, Seian University of Art and Design Gallery Cube, Shiga Gaze, cumono gallery, Kyoto

Group

2026 In House, biscuit gallery, Tokyo

2025 Kirakira, Nikai no Tenjishitsu omom, Tokyo WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.41: ON PAPER: Art and Print Market, WHAT CAFE, Tokyo Play Field, DDD ART En, Tokyo omom market, Nikai no Tenjishitsu omom, Tokyo

2024 Yu-yu Ei-ei, Gallery Dalston, Tokyo Spring selection, Gallery Dalston, Tokyo Jury’s Special Award, FACE 2024, SOMPO Museum of Art, Tokyo Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2024, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto

2023 Yay, Totan, Tokyo The Wind Passes Through, YOD TOKYO, Tokyo grid2, biscuit gallery, Tokyo ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2023, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto

Awards

2019 Selected, The 37th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition

2020 Excellence Award, Seian University of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition

2022 Studio Award, Musashino Art University Degree Show Selected, Idemitsu Art Award 2022

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高瀬 栞菜|Kanna Takase

高瀬 栞菜 / Kanna Takase

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高瀬 栞菜 / Kanna Takase

1994 Born in Osaka, Japan

2020 Completed Master’s Degree Program in Painting, Graduate School of Art, Kyoto City University of Arts

Concept

I keep daily notes on the things and events that pique my interest, using those words as a foundation for constructing my compositions. I am particularly inspired by human interaction and the feelings that arise from it. Much of my focus is on negative aspects: the obstacles and frustrations that occur between myself and others, the sorrow and pain, and the inner secrets that remain hidden during communication. When translating these themes onto the canvas, I replace them with animals, plants, or objects. By painting these subjects in a pop style to create a visual contrast, I explore new narratives that feel unsettled yet somehow humorous.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition

2019

Stories I Have No Memory Of, Kyoto City University of Arts Lesser Gallery, Kyoto

2020

Remnants of Midday, Gallery Morning, Kyoto

2021

Walk in a tale, Kyoto Okazaki Tsutaya Books, Kyoto

Group Exhibition

2019

From the Youth, Seishun Gallery Chigita, Kyoto

2020

Tsubo Tsubo Tsubo Exhibition, Gallery Keifu, Kyoto

2021

Enclosed mythology, Artist in Residence Kamonasu, Kyoto

2022

Henshin, TENSHADAI, Kyoto Words of Color, Shinjuku Takashimaya, Tokyo BEING AND TIME, Powerlong Art Center, Shanghai, China

Art Fair

2021

ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2021, The Museum of Kyoto Annex, Kyoto Contemporary Art Fair, Hankyu Umeda, Osaka

2022

ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2022, The Museum of Kyoto Annex, Kyoto ART FAIR TOKYO 2022, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo

2023

(un)fair 2023, C/O SUPERSTUDIO MAXI, Milan, Italy

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Ryoko Furukawa

Ryoko Furukawa

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Ryoko Furukawa

1994 Born in Hyogo, Japan
2020 BFA in Oil Painting, Hiroshima City University
2022 MFA in Oil Painting, Hiroshima City University

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2023 
“Pacific is made of silver”, HIROSE COLLECTION, Hiroshima

2022 
“mawaruhane-wo-kiru/haru”, MONO.LOGUES, Tokyo

2021 
“About Mr. and Mrs. X I Know”, gallery RYO, Tokyo
“Cowboy without Memory is in the Garden”, gallery G, Hiroshima

2020
“Strangers in a strange place”, Hiroshima art center, Hiroshima

2019
“Faceless ghost”, Book and liberty, Hiroshima

Group Exhibitions 
2023
biscuit gallery second anniversary exhibition “grid2” biscuit gallery, Tokyo
“Expression of Contemporary Artists”, Soil Museum SHIDO, Hyogo
“kɯβzɨβɾe^ collapse”, Decameron, Tokyo

2022 
“SHIBUYA STYLE vol.16”, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
“Itʼs Gonna Be Awesome!!! Part 2”, YOD TOKYO, Tokyo
biscuit gallery first anniversary exhibition “grid”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo
“Between one and another”, ARTDYNE, Tokyo

2021
“The 30th Annual Scholarship Recipient Art Exhibition”, The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo
“SLANGS”, WHAT CAFE, Tokyo 

2020
“Let’s present”, Gallery G, Hiroshima

2019
“Forest without a figure”, HIROSHIMA ART CENTER, Hiroshima
“THE PORTRAIT within 1km”, Atmosphere, Tokyo

Art Fairs
Art Fair Tokyo 2023
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2022
3331 ART FAIR 2021

Awards

2022
Hiroshima city University Graduation Doctoral Program Final Exhibition, Oil Painting Major Prize
2021
PIGMENT Prize, The 30th Scholarship Exhibition
2020
Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation 

Concept

I create paintings based on images associated with words, and as a rule, the following items are my rules. (1) I cut up the text written by a third party. (2) The creator reconstructs the text in (1). (3) The artist creates a painting using only the text in (2) as a clue. The artist cuts up words found around her, such as the instruction manual for the fan she uses at home and the piano instruction book she used in her childhood, and creates paintings from the reconstructed sentences.

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Yuta Fukuhara

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Yuta Fukuhara

1997 Born in Tokyo
2020   BFA in Oil Painting, Musashino University of the Arts

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2022 “Third Time’s the Charm-Last garden The Movie-”, GINZA SIX Art Wall Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Garden”, Shimokitazawa Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “The Garden Once More”, MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions
2023 “biscuit gallery Christmas Exhibition”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Love&Peace Exhibition 2022”, SOGO Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
2022 “Nine Colors”, Hankyu Umeda, Osaka, Japan
2022 “ART IS…”, WHAT CAFE, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Duo Show “introduction”, S.Y.P Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “Immaturity – Starting here”, 634 Tenjishitsu, Tokyo, Japan

Statement

The motifs of Fukuhara’s paintings include a wide range of subjects, including people, still life, and landscapes, and the types of paintings range from abstract to figurative. Fukuhara finds the subjects of his paintings when he is alone or in the midst of his mundane daily life with friends. He creates paintings based on images he takes with his smartphone, but arranges these images freely through the artist’s sensory filter. Fukuhara always hopes to shorten the distance between the viewer of his paintings and himself, the artist, and to have the viewer relive the perspective he had when he was painting. In other words, Fukuhara’s paintings and drawings are an effective medium for sharing with strangers the sensations and perceptions he has in his daily life that are not fully articulated through his artwork. However, Fukuhara never forces the viewer to have a “correct” view of his paintings, but rather allows the viewer to perceive them freely through his or her own sensibilities. In the midst of an increasing number of contemporary art works that overly demand context and prerequisite knowledge and compete only with each other for “esotericism,” Fukuhara’s painting practice is strikingly fresh.

Hiroki Yamamoto / Art Critic

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Maiko Kasai

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Maiko Kasai

1983 Born in Aichi, Japan
2007 BA Fine Art Oil Painting, Kanazawa College of Art
2009 MA Fine Art Painting, Kanazawa College of Art Graduate School

Concept

When we learn of the dizzying events happening outside our homes, we feel a sense of déjà vu, like looking at a long picture scroll, and at the same time, we become aware that we are always being watched from above.
It’s like when you look into the baby monitor you installed at home for your child, it feels like a gaze of compassion directed at the entire space, or it feels like you’re being watched over by the moonlight shining into the room from the window. Brings a sense of comfort.
In this work, the entire painting is illuminated by bluish moonlight as a way of imagining the story from a bird’s-eye perspective, and within that light, the inseparable relationship between the girl and the animals is depicted from a close-up perspective.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2022 Moonlight / YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo
2017 Little Owl’s Eyes / YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo
2015 Narrative detours / YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo
2013 Neighbor’s Garden / YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo
2011 Place no one knows / YUKA CONTEMPORARY, Tokyo
2010 Fundamental Training / YUKA CONTEMPORARY, Tokyo
2008 GALLERY b.TOKYO, Tokyo
2008 Budouya, Ishikawa
2005 Child’s Room / Suisei Club, Ishikawa

​Group Exhibitions
2023 BAN ROM SAI, Spring / susuham, Gifu
2023 grid2 -biscuit gallery 2nd anniversary exhibition / biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2022 BAN ROM SAI, Spring / susuham, Gifu
2021 CADAN × ISETAN ART GALLERY, Figuration / ISETAN ART GALLERY, Shinjuku, Tokyo
2021 BAN ROM SAI, Spring / susuham, Gifu
2021 The Rite of Spring / YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo
2020 The Rite of Spring / YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo
2018 BAN ROM SAI Art Retreatt “ART TREE 2018 / Rikyu gallery, Bangkok
2017 Somewhere I Have Never Travelled ~ seeking the future together / URANO, Tokyo
2016 FINE ART / UNIVERSITY SELECTION 2016-2017 / Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki
2016 Summer Showcase 2016 Nagoya / Galerie En, Nagoya
2016 VOCA2016 THE VISION OF CONTEMPORARY ART 2016 / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2015 ART PROJECT 2015 MATCH / Okazaki Shinkin Bank, Aichi
2015 Oil on small canvas / YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo
2014 pinpoint / Motoazabu Gallery, Tokyo
2013 Why not live for Art? II – 9 collectors reveal their treasures / Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2013 Summer Group Show 2013 / YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo
2013 carré 2013 / Gallery TEN, Ishikawa
2012 Shell Art Award Artists Selection 2012 / The National Art Center, Tokyo
2012 Various Drawings / YUKA TSURUNO, Tokyo
2011 Feel the rhythm, Color me bright, Everyday is a carnival / YUKA CONTEMPORARY, Tokyo
2011 30th Outstanding Rising Artists Exhibition Presented by Sompo Japan Fine Art Foundation / Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo
2010 The 7th Nishiwaki-City Thumbhole Grand Prize Exhibition / Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo
2010 ARTS CHALLENGE 2010 / Aichi Art Center, Aichi
2009 New Artists 2009 / Gallery Jin Projects, Tokyo
2009 Graduation Works 2009 Kanazawa College of Art / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
2008 Shell Art Award 2008 / Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
2008 Time of Books, Time of Painting / Kanazawa Izumino Library, Ishikawa
2007 8 Corners – a joint exhibition by master and doctoral course – / Green Arts Gallery, Ishikawa
2007 Graduation Works 2007 Kanazawa College of Art / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
2006 Strange World / Gallery Bouchukanari, Ishikawa
2005 Portfolio Exhibition 2005 / Suisei Club, Ishikawa

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Saki Fujikawa

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Saki Fujikawa

1990  Born in Tokyo
2013  BFA in Oil Painting, Tama Art University

Selected Exhibitions

2022   “Hikari no Sekisou”, WhimsyWorks, Taipei, Taiwan
2022   “Iki wo Suru Toha”, KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2022 ”Subete no Kajitsu niha Tane ga Attarashii “, LIGHT HOUSE GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2020   “Muroka no Enogu”, River Coffee&Gallery, Tokyo
2020   “Konseki e no Kahitsu”, Gallery Yukihira, Tokyo
2019    “Inori no Dansou”, Gallery ondo, Tokyo/Osaka
2018    “Mike no Kyouzon”, Gallery Yukihira, Tokyo
2018    “Michi no tame no Esquisse”, Gallery ondo, Tokyo/Osaka
2017    “Kamakiri no Ono”, Gallery ondo, Tokyo/Osaka
2017    “Fujikawa Saki no Jungarakuta”, Art Complex Center, Tokyo
2017    “Oukan no Purezento”, Aoneko Shobo, Tokyo
2016    “Kowarenakyaumarenai”, Art Complex Center, Tokyo
2016   “Fujikawa Saki Solo Exhibition”, Art Space KIN GYO KOO KAN, Taipei
2016   “Ikiru wo Kakeru”, MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY, Tokyo
2015   “Hibi to Doukisareru Aato”, d-labo Midtown, Tokyo
2015   “Shinsedai he no Shiten 2015 Fujikawa Saki Solo Exhibition”, Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo
2012   “petit ”GEISAI”#15 Jury Prize Winners Exhibition Fujikawa Saki Solo Exhibition”, hidari zingaro, Tokyo

Award

2014   TAGBOAT ART FES 2014 Jury Special Prize – Morishita Taisuke (Art Lab Tokyo) Award – Winner
2014   TAGBOAT ART FES 2014 Jury Special Prize Sugita Tetsuo (GALLERY MoMo) Award – Winner
2011  petit “GEISAI”#15 Jury Prize ob Award – Winner

Concept

She creates works based on her interests and the questions that arise from her surroundings and dialogues. She has been focusing on creating a number of paintings that are mainly based on the human will.
Since her solo exhibition “Addition to Traces,” held in 2020, in which she drew on the belongings of others, her interest in people living in the present has grown stronger, and she has repeatedly recorded (created) trivial changes in the world that unfold in front of her eyes as parts of her works, in real time.
She agrees with the words of numerous painters who have told her that “to live is to paint,” and she works with her brush in her studio every day.

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北島 麻里子|Mariko Kitajima

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Mariko Kitajima

2014 Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Faculty of Design, Department of Fine Arts, Painting Major

Exhibition History

[Solo Exhibition]
2025 “Carpe Diem” (PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo)

[Group Exhibition]
2025 ELLE × MEET YOUR ART “Divers Narratives – Intersecting Gazes” (Tokyo)
2025 “ART CIRCLES” (Lexus Osaka Fukushima, Osaka)
2024 “faces” (GALLERY CURU, Thailand)
2024 “grid3” (biscuit gallery, Tokyo)
2023 “CONCERTO” (Lurf MUSEUM, Tokyo)
2023 “CULTURE ART PARK 2023” (Daikanyama T-Site, Tokyo)
2023 “grid2” (biscuit gallery, Tokyo)
2021 “Attributes/Demonic Nature” (WATOWA GALLERY, Tokyo)

[Art Fair]
ART TAIPEI 2014, 2015, 2016 (Taiwan)
ART OSAKA 2015, 2023 (Osaka)
ART FAIR PHILIPPINES 2016, 2020, 2023 (Philippines)
ART FAIR TOKYO 2021, 2023, 2024 (Tokyo)
JING ART 2023 (China)

Concept

My work explores the theme of “Self.” Within the ambiguous existence of the self, I feel there is one “me” visible above the water, like the tip of an iceberg, and many other versions of “me” hidden beneath the surface. These versions are reflected in everyday objects, changing form, and existing within everything I see. My practice involves finding these many hidden selves. Through my work, I hope to create opportunities for viewers to discover their own hidden selves.

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Machi Sugita

 

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Machi Sugita

2000 Born in Saitama
2020 BFA, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Junior College of Art and Design
2022 Completed Research Student Program, Joshibi University of Art and Design (Bachelor’s Degree)

 

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2025 
BORDER (ARTDYNE, Tokyo)
2024 
Migratory Birds (GALLERY ROOM A, Tokyo)
Shining Stars (Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo)
2023 
We Can’t All Become One (ARTDYNE, Tokyo)
Dignity and Light (Contemporary Tokyo, Tokyo)
2022 
First Light (ARTDYNE, Tokyo)

Group Exhibitions
2024 
grid3 (biscuit gallery, Tokyo)
Draw Lines & Shapes in My Maps (T&Y Gallery, Los Angeles)
2023 
grid2 (biscuit gallery, Tokyo)
2022
Artificial Phenomenon (Centurion Lounge, Regent Hotel, Taipei)
nine colors XVI (Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo)
Blue Period Exhibition – BLUE ART COLLABORATION (Terada Warehouse G1 Building, Tokyo)

Collaborations
THE PACKAGE by ZOZOVILLA Vol.2

Awards
2019 Joshibi University of Art and Design Junior College of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition – Graduation Work Award
2020 The 7th Mirai-ten Exhibition – Semi Grand Prix & Special Prize
2021 The 8th Mirai-ten Exhibition – Special Prize

Concept

Sugita consistently paints “light.”
City lights emerging from the darkness, vividly flashing neon signs—light serves as a symbol of life and a place of peace for humanity. Through her brushwork, she portrays the irrationalities and fragilities of modern society, aiming to reveal the issues underlying various phenomena and situations.

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