GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Ai Shinohara titled Chimera. In the exhibition, Shinohara represents about her ten new works including the drawings and paintings.

The influence from Japanese comic books appears the works of Shinohara that use the well-defined outline and the flat layout. Using the elements of Japanese traditional motifs such as flowers and birds, Shinohara succeeds in elevating her comic touch paintings to an art form. Shinohara describes realistic gruesome situation such as gouging girl’s internal organs, however the expressions do not mean death but rather birth. Her works seems to be pessimism, but Shinohara attempts to express the image of life and show women in her works as a symbol of giving lives.

In her latest works, her grotesque expressions have become understatements and developed into metamorphosis as one of her theme. Shinohara describes beautiful women who try to live strongly even though the women seems to be dominated by outside elements and the situations of women are not always their own wills.

Ai Shinohara was born in 1984 in Kagoshima and graduated from Tama Art University in 2007. This is her third solo exhibition at the gallery.