fictional reality.

This time, biscuit gallery will hold a solo exhibition “fictional reality” by Eri Fukami starting Thursday, May 5, 2022.

We will present new paintings with “fiction” as the theme. The exhibition venue is on the 3rd floor of biscuit gallery.

Eri Fukami explores and practices painting, and painting that is possible for herself living in the present day, taking into account not only the genealogy of art but also her own era, society, and culture. She states that many of her works depicting simple-faced figures that evoke a sense of naive charm are depictions of personal worlds—events in her daily life, relationships with family and others, love, and dreams she has seen.

Fukami’s approach of capturing the doubts and realizations in daily life, the ambiguous and subtle movements of the inner world that we face as we live each day, and rendering them into paintings infused with fantasy, will evoke expressionist painters such as Kirchner and Munch. However, rather than standing on the side of narrating the genealogy of art, she takes the position of a person living life itself, much like Hellenistic literature that sings of love and the laws of nature, with the motto of presenting the reality that exists there as painting. It is precisely because of this that Fukami’s works resonate with the sensibilities of her contemporaries and may possess the power to become an opportunity for us to contemplate daily life anew.

Eri Fukami《discover.》2022

 


Text by Shu Okamoto

 

Artwork list is here

 

Artist Profile

Eri Fukami

Born in Osaka
Currently enrolled in the Oil Painting Department at Tokyo University of the Arts

Creating work with “the dwelling place of the heart” in relation to oneself and the world as the theme.
What is it that creates human consciousness? In a certain moment, we feel déjà vu. We see landscapes repeated over and over again in our dreams. We are moved by encountering “something.” Without our realizing it, the heart, emotion, and memory teach us the “dwelling place of the world” more accurately than ourselves.

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