Through works that combine social commentary with vibrant colors and lovable forms, Emi Katsuta has forged her own unique artistic universe.<\/p>\n
Following last year\u2019s solo exhibition Someone\u2019s Whereabouts, this new show will once again explore \u201cwhereabouts\u201d as its theme.<\/p>\n
Even if we ourselves, or the events around us, remain unchanged, the nation, religion or other social groups that comprise our \u201cwhereabouts\u201d can greatly impact the meaning we ascribe to our existence. While Someone\u2019s Whereabouts explored the shifting of both physical and psychological \u201cwhereabouts\u201d in contemporary society, One\u2019s Whereabouts broadens the artist\u2019s outlook to explore the presence of others.<\/p>\n
Such presences can only be sensed via figures and shadows that are lost amid light, just as the sun, so domineering in the day, can only be sensed at night through its illuminance of the moon. By this same token, it is only through the existence of others that we can recognize ourselves.<\/p>\n
In this way, Katsuta\u2019s contemplation of whereabouts has directed her focus to those perspectives in which opposing elements such as good and evil, light and shadow, truth and lies, co-exist. From that vantage point, she directs her thoughts to the hidden elements which go unrepresented in the world each person sees from their own whereabouts.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan the world seen from one\u2019s whereabouts really be trusted? Can the whole really be divided so easily into individual parts?\u201d This question, which has formed in Katsuta\u2019s mind, has no answer. However, that may be the very reason that she continues to stress the importance of observing and contemplating the material and social world.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at the works and try to look at it as someone else, not as yourself, you actually learn about the way you see the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel Richter (b.1962 -)<\/p>\n
By probing our relationship with others to locate the self, Emi Katsuta\u2019s artworks simultaneously serve as a chance for us to ponder what is seen and unseen from each person\u2019s whereabouts and in turn enable us to overcome the uncertainty of the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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