EMI KURAYA – LONG VACATION
2022-01-10The lockdown environment seems to have pushed Emi Kuraya to her limits, and her new works show that she has nevertheless managed to get out of her house, seeking to confront the unknown. Always halfway between a lucid approach and the exploration of her own unconscious, the young artist provokes an encounter with the other, whether it is premeditated or born by happenstance…
In Lovers, Kuraya portrays a couple by the seashore, painted from a photo-booth image she found on the ground, while she was going to a beach to look for a new point of view on the bay of Suruga… Photography imposed itself on her, and so, for the first time, the 26-year-old woman tried to paint a male figure. “Boys don’t just represent the opposite sex for me, they are the absolute unknown. That’s why I wanted to start drawing portraits of boys, something I had never dared to do before: I needed to explore this territory.”
Opposite – Lover, 2021
Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2022
Perrotin
807, 8/F, K11 Atelier Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Hong Kong
