KAITO Itsuki: The Monopolistic Sweet Spots

7 Dec 2022-14 Jan 2023

PV 7 Dec 2022, 6-8pm

Overview

Kaito Itsuki pairs bold coloration with elastic narratives in which humans, animals and imagined creatures metamorphose and come to terms with identification. Itsuki came of age in Sapporo, Hokkaido, around the turn of the twenty-first century, when the expanded possibilities of the World Wide Web allowed for the overwhelming influx of visual materials. Her referential database is informed by non-hierarchical images insofar as she wasn’t in proximity to much fine art growing up. The emergent mythologies that Itsuki formulates are reflexive prompts for the viewer to contend with social and psychological structures. Individual peculiarities are weighed against cultural mores in an effort to expand the self beyond the bounds of an implicit order. Itsuki achieves this outcome by utilising both cute and austere imagery, tracking the semiotics of her forms and pursuing the potential within unlikely combinations. 

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