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Ayao Shiokawa "Shadow in Mirror"

Gallery Kido Press
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Artists

Ayao Shiokawa
Ayao Shiokawa was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 1978. From early childhood, she was a mild-mannered girl who would play by herself and get lost in her thoughts.
While drawing pictures, she amused herself by going back and forth between the world of her imagination and that of reality.

"Mommy, where did I come from?" she once asked, and her mother replied "from inside my tummy. But that did not answer her real question. "No, I mean before that - where was I?" The mystery continued to swell in her mind, and eventually became what is also the principal theme of her work.

Shiokawa has likened the world portrayed in her pictures to that in a mirror. Although it is one of merely virtual images, the mirror-world presents even reflections of the self that cannot actually be seen otherwise. Overlapped with it is our own idealized spirit-world free of gravity and time, lending a reality to the other self inhabiting the fictitious domain. At the same time, it brings home to us how uncertain and indefinite our existence in the real world is.

Shiokawa's works are delicate visual depictions of this other world just as she sees it.
Rendered with a rich sensitivity, her pictures draw us inside them like another type of mirror, one reflecting the soul. Born of techniques taken from Japanese woodblock printing, their world view reveals to us a cosmos suffused with a feminine, enveloping warmth and soft, gentle light.

Schedule

Nov 29 (Sat) 2008-Dec 27 (Sat) 2008 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
12:00-18:00
Closed
Monday, Tuesday

Opening Reception Nov 29 (Sat) 2008 18:00 - 20:00

FeeFree
VenueGallery Kido Press
Location1F Yokoyama Bldg., 3-3-3 Kudan Minami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0074
Access6 minute walk from exit A4 at Ichigaya Station on the Namboku and Yurakucho lines or Toei Shinjuku line.
Phone03-5817-8988
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