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Layla Yamamoto "Who Said It was Simple?"
Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery
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Layla Yamamoto
Layla Yamamoto is a contemporary artist born in Tokyo in 1995, who moved to the U.S. as a teenager and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently based in Japan, her perspective as a Japanese artist with experience living in the U.S. is a characteristic that distinguishes Yamamoto from other artists of her generation.
Yamamoto's solo exhibition "After the Quake" (Souya Handa Projects), held in Nihonbashi Mitsukoshimae at the end of 2021, featured a group exhibition entitled "New New Normal" (Souya Handa Projects), which was held in 2020. (Gallery MoMo Projects), the artist presented a series of works incorporating the words of Karl Marx and Margaret Atwood (Canadian author known for her novels "The Samurai's Tale" and "Petition") on the theme of social oppression of pregnancy and childbirth.
This exhibition, Yamamoto's first solo show at Commercial Gallery, aims to create a new perspective on anime culture, which has been biasedly presented from a male perspective, through works that add a feminist interpretation from a female perspective.
This exhibition consists of three new series of works by the artist and consistently presents "faces" that are alienated in multiple ways: Japanese, female, and character. Faces that are alien, yet somehow visitors are drawn to them as they gaze into their eyes, may not be the faces of individuals, but the likenesses of society.
Yamamoto's solo exhibition "After the Quake" (Souya Handa Projects), held in Nihonbashi Mitsukoshimae at the end of 2021, featured a group exhibition entitled "New New Normal" (Souya Handa Projects), which was held in 2020. (Gallery MoMo Projects), the artist presented a series of works incorporating the words of Karl Marx and Margaret Atwood (Canadian author known for her novels "The Samurai's Tale" and "Petition") on the theme of social oppression of pregnancy and childbirth.
This exhibition, Yamamoto's first solo show at Commercial Gallery, aims to create a new perspective on anime culture, which has been biasedly presented from a male perspective, through works that add a feminist interpretation from a female perspective.
This exhibition consists of three new series of works by the artist and consistently presents "faces" that are alienated in multiple ways: Japanese, female, and character. Faces that are alien, yet somehow visitors are drawn to them as they gaze into their eyes, may not be the faces of individuals, but the likenesses of society.
Schedule | Apr 15 (Fri) 2022-May 8 (Sun) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://ritsukifujisakigallery.com/blog/2022/04/03/who-said-it-was-simple-by-yamamoto-layla-from-20220415-to-20220508/ | ||||
| Venue | Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery http://ritsukifujisakigallery.com/en/ | ||||
| Location | 2-2-10 Higashi Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0004 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit B3 at Higashi-nihonbashi Station on the Toei Asakusa line, 4 minute walk from exit C1 at Bakurocho Station on the JR Sobu line, 5 minute walk from exit A3 at Bakuro-yokoyama Station on the Toei Shinjuku line. | ||||
| Phone | 070-4072-2934 | ||||
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