Mai Yoneyama "Raw"
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Mai Yoneyama
The Chain Museum, which operates ArtSticker, and FONZ, which operates THE CITY BAKERY, have opened Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8min, an art gallery with an adjoining bakery and cafe, on the 1st floor of TODA BUILDING, which opened in November 2024 in Kyobashi, Tokyo. From Saturday, December 5, 2026, the gallery presents RAW, a new solo exhibition of new works by artist Mai Yoneyama.
Based in Tokyo, Yoneyama began in animation production and has since moved back and forth between still images, moving images, and sculpture, searching for ways to fix images drawn digitally into real space and material form. Recent works include layered works and reliefs in acrylic, as well as sculptures and Reflection, an outdoor sculpture approximately four meters tall. As these attempts continued, Yoneyama came to face the question of what "rawness" in a work means. In Yoneyama's process, an image is conceived through sketches, its lines are selected, color and light are layered digitally, and the result is transformed into an object. Yoneyama regards drawing, selecting, processing, and reproducing as raw acts of making that work upon the image. In this exhibition, Yoneyama fixes each stage of drawing (sketches, line art, and finished renderings) onto a different material to explore how images can exist as works of art. The exhibition also introduces a format new to both Yoneyama and Tokyo 8min, unfolding over two parts with a change of works between Part 1 and Part 2. At a time when images are shared and consumed at enormous speed, the question remains of what gives rise to a work's uniqueness. We invite you to visit the exhibition and experience a space where the traces of drawing emerge as matter.
Based in Tokyo, Yoneyama began in animation production and has since moved back and forth between still images, moving images, and sculpture, searching for ways to fix images drawn digitally into real space and material form. Recent works include layered works and reliefs in acrylic, as well as sculptures and Reflection, an outdoor sculpture approximately four meters tall. As these attempts continued, Yoneyama came to face the question of what "rawness" in a work means. In Yoneyama's process, an image is conceived through sketches, its lines are selected, color and light are layered digitally, and the result is transformed into an object. Yoneyama regards drawing, selecting, processing, and reproducing as raw acts of making that work upon the image. In this exhibition, Yoneyama fixes each stage of drawing (sketches, line art, and finished renderings) onto a different material to explore how images can exist as works of art. The exhibition also introduces a format new to both Yoneyama and Tokyo 8min, unfolding over two parts with a change of works between Part 1 and Part 2. At a time when images are shared and consumed at enormous speed, the question remains of what gives rise to a work's uniqueness. We invite you to visit the exhibition and experience a space where the traces of drawing emerge as matter.
Schedule | Dec 5 (Sat) 2026-Feb 9 (Tue) 2027 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://artsticker.app/en/events/168137 | ||||
| Venue | Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8min https://artsticker.app/8min | ||||
| Address | 1F Toda Bldg., 1-7-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8388 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit 6 at Kyobashi Station on the Ginza line, 5 minute walk from exit B1 at Nihombashi Station on the Ginza and Tozai lines, 5 minute walk from exit A7 at Takaracho Station on the Toei Asakusa line, 7 minute walk from the Yaesu Central exit of JR Tokyo Station. |
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