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Ryusei Nakajima "I Trust Your Work"
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Ryusei Nakajima
LAG（LIVE ART GALLERY）is pleased to announce the exhibition “I Trust Your Story” by Ryusei Nakajima from Friday, September 13, 2024 to Saturday, September 28, 2024.
In 2022, at just 17 years old after Nakajima dropped out of high school, he won the Aya Takano Award at GEISHA#21, one of the gateways to accessing contemporary art, after that, he held a solo exhibition at Hidari Zingaro and took part in various art projects, and his works has been presented in multiple forms, including paintings and poetic texts, inspired by his awareness of the matter in the digital domains as the staring point for these works.
His strange student era under the circumstances due to the pandemic, accepting the culture online mingled reality and virtual, and through all of these, he felt the impossibility of sharing with others in the clipping social structure, and as a means to break through this sense of entrapment, he becomes having the belief of the power of narratives which have the potential to reveal a world beyond fiction and reality.
In this exhibition, his experienced caregiving of hearing the story of daydreaming from his grannie with dementia, his encounter with an illustrator Seitaro Kuroda, and his resonance with storytelling of Japanese traveling entertainers and legends of blind people, while touching these various ways of the contexts, the exhibition will feature paintings created by weaving stories of his daily events and sometimes fantasies.
In 2022, at just 17 years old after Nakajima dropped out of high school, he won the Aya Takano Award at GEISHA#21, one of the gateways to accessing contemporary art, after that, he held a solo exhibition at Hidari Zingaro and took part in various art projects, and his works has been presented in multiple forms, including paintings and poetic texts, inspired by his awareness of the matter in the digital domains as the staring point for these works.
His strange student era under the circumstances due to the pandemic, accepting the culture online mingled reality and virtual, and through all of these, he felt the impossibility of sharing with others in the clipping social structure, and as a means to break through this sense of entrapment, he becomes having the belief of the power of narratives which have the potential to reveal a world beyond fiction and reality.
In this exhibition, his experienced caregiving of hearing the story of daydreaming from his grannie with dementia, his encounter with an illustrator Seitaro Kuroda, and his resonance with storytelling of Japanese traveling entertainers and legends of blind people, while touching these various ways of the contexts, the exhibition will feature paintings created by weaving stories of his daily events and sometimes fantasies.
Schedule | Sep 13 (Fri) 2024-Sep 28 (Sat) 2024 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Sep 13 (Fri) 2024 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | LAG (Live Art Gallery) https://www.live-art-books.jp/  | ||||
| Location | 1F Daiwa Jingumae Bldg., 2-4-11 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0001 | ||||
| Access | 7 minute walk from exit 3 at Gaienmae Station on the Ginza line, 12 minute walk from exit 5 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines, 14 minute walk from the Takeshita exit of Harajuku Station on the JR Yamanote line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3405-0604 | ||||
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