What is proof that a person was alive?
Along with human history, numerous ruins have been excavated, where ancient people once lived. Among the things left behind after people disappear, one of the most iconic is the various buildings.
Buildings exist as objects where you can read the people who gather, the people who live, and the culture, and I believe they are what people leave behind after they have lived.
Painting a cityscape means depicting the lives of the people living there. By depicting the city, Yoko Murakami attempts to depict people's lives.
By not depicting human figures in the cityscape, the painting leaves a blank space that viewers can imagine. By having people see it, the world of the painting is completed.
He finds it interesting to bring his own feelings and imagination into his own world from within himself to his outer world, and he creates the world he imagines.
It depicts a unique worldview that combines the worlds of the cityscapes and fantasy worlds that have been working on for some time.
It features a strong fantasy feel, featuring the work "The Rabbit with Gills," which marked the starting point for her to begin drawing her own inner fantasies.
This solo exhibition marks the beginning × unfolding a world of imaginary cityscapes.
