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Yutaka Kikutake Gallery
EVENTS & PROGRAMS
Kako Shirahata Breathing, trying to weep
Open
2026/5/30 Sat. ～ 2026/7/25 Sat.
Kako Shirahata (b. 2002, Osaka) attempts to reconstruct images in pictorial space that superimpose her own features onto female forms in classical art and contemporary visual culture. Shirahata’s explorations transforming female representation from something that is seen into a subject that is shown began after observing the way images of young performers are manipulated through AI technologies and continuously consumed as objects of others’ desires in online spaces. Her practice of immersing herself within existing images, or superimposing existing female figures onto herself, is a methodology that arose out of an urge to partially assume the burden of the desirous gaze that these women are constantly subjected to. Shirahata positions this approach, which aims to reconstruct these types of images, as an attempt to expand notions of the female form to include connotations of the ancient mystical gesture of anasyrma.
If systems of representation can be understood as having shaped our world in conjunction with power dynamics, then Shirahata’s efforts to immerse herself in existing female representations—reinforcing and reconstructing them, and presenting them to society anew—also seem to imply an intervention in the very framework of these systems and structures. Kako Shiarahata’s first solo exhibition at Yutaka Kikutake Gallery showcases her current interests and efforts through a series of new works, including a large horizontal canvas with three female figures side-by-side, work featuring a new approach that superimposes multiple expressions onto a single figure, and the visceral depictions of her Flower series.
Information
- Dates
2026/5/30 Sat.～2026/7/25 Sat.
11:00～19:00
- Closed
Sun, Mon and National Holidays
- Organizer
Yutaka Kikutake Gallery
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