【News】石井海音個展「warp」/フカミエリ個展「fictional reality.」

At biscuit gallery, we are pleased to announce simultaneous exhibitions: Amane Ishii solo exhibition “warp” and Eri Fukami solo exhibition “fictional reality.”

Amane Ishii solo exhibition “warp” will be held across two floors—the 1st and 2nd floors of biscuit gallery—centering on portrait works.

Amane Ishii Solo Exhibition “warp” Main Visual

Ishii speaks of wanting to “throw her paintings far away.” To express that she wants her paintings to remain for many years as throwing them far away—this is a sensibility characteristic of Ishii. One can sense an active nuance, as if projecting works into a different tense from the present. Now, like dice scattered, works are thrown into places different from here.

Works we typically see in museums and elsewhere are thus thrown across countless eras and have nonetheless remained in the present. Indeed, people’s eyes change, and paintings age. Yet paintings, in principle, live longer than people. Across time and space, people encounter distant objects from the past.

The title “warp” given to this solo exhibition, along with moving between dimensions of pictorial space, carries Ishii’s quiet longing and wishes toward paintings that have endured such distortions of space and time.

Amane Ishii “Astral Projection” 2022

 

In the solo exhibition “fictional reality” by Eri Fukami, new paintings will be presented with “fiction” as the theme.
The exhibition venue is the 3rd floor of biscuit gallery.

Eri Fukami Solo Exhibition “fictional reality” Main Visual

Fukami explores and practices painting, and what kind of painting is possible for herself living in contemporary times, taking into account not only the lineage of art but also her own era, society, and culture. The artist states that many of her works, which depict figures with simple faces that evoke a sense of the “skillfully unskilled” style, describe personal worlds—events in her surroundings, relationships with family and others, love, and dreams she has seen.

Fukami’s approach of capturing doubts and realizations in daily life, the ambiguous and delicate inner movements we face as we live each day, and rendering them as paintings infused with fantasy, would evoke expressionist painters such as Kirchner and Munch. However, rather than standing on the side that narrates the lineage of art, the artist takes the stance of one who lives daily life, much like Hellenistic literature that celebrates love and the laws of nature, making it her motto to present the reality therein as painting. This is precisely why Fukami’s works respond to contemporary sensibility and possess the power to become an occasion for us to contemplate daily life anew.

Eri Fukami “discover.” 2022

Text by Shu Okamoto (岡本秀)

 

Artist Profile

Amane Ishii | 石井海音

Born in Osaka Prefecture, 1994.

Paints windows, mirrors, and paintings within paintings. Like girls moving freely within them, paintings themselves too have warped across eras, places, and techniques. In this age, I wonder what kind of paintings I can create as someone living through culture.

Eri Fukami | フカミエリ

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

Creates work exploring the theme of “the dwelling place of the heart” in myself and the world.
What is it that creates human consciousness? In certain moments, we feel déjà vu. In dreams, we see landscapes repeated over and over. We encounter “something” and are moved. Without our awareness, our hearts, our emotions, our memories teach us the “dwelling place of the world” more accurately than we ourselves.

Exhibition Details

Amane Ishii Solo Exhibition “warp”

Venue: biscuit gallery 1st–2nd Floors
Period: May 5 (Thursday) – May 22 (Sunday), 2022
Hours: 1:00 PM–7:00 PM (Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM)
*Closed Mondays through Wednesdays
Admission: Free
Organized by: biscuit gallery

Eri Fukami Solo Exhibition “fictional reality”

Venue: biscuit gallery 3rd Floor
Period: May 5 (Thursday) – May 22 (Sunday), 2022
Hours: 1:00 PM–7:00 PM (Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM)
*Closed Mondays through Wednesdays
Admission: Free
Organized by: biscuit gallery

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