Akira Takaishi | Place Far Away from Anyone or Anywhere

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Akira Takaishi, "Place Far Away from Anyone or Anywhere"

Courtesy of the Gallery.

This exhibition title Place Far Away from Anyone or Anywhere is borrowed from the last sentence of Haruki Murakami's novel, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles". 

Focusing on the contemporary parallel relationship between the hole-shaped structures seen in Japanese postwar artworks and the holes that play an important role in Murakami's novels, I have been creating artworks and curating exhibitions. The protagonists of Murakami's works often shut themselves up in holes or old wells, isolating themselves from other people and the world, entering a different world and experiencing paranormal events. I believe that such a symbolic “hole”, which is far from anywhere and anyone, is the source of human imagination and the place where works of art and literature are born. This exhibition furthers my explorations of this concept with paintings and an illustrated booklet.

Akira Takaishi (born/resides in Japan, b.1985) has been creating land art, installations and implicit paintings showing distorted spaces using twisted perspectives. Through them, Takaishi focuses on hole-shaped structures as convoluted reflections of societal structures and individual identities, at times somewhere to escape into, and at the same time, be trapped by. Takaishi has had numerous solo and group shows, and recently also curated a group show 'Subterraneans' at Gallery αM, Tokyo (2021).

http://www.akiratakaishi.com

Artist talk Saturday, September 16, 2-4 pm at Centre A