We are pleased to announce the introduction of Izima Kaoru's new series "You Are Beautiful" at AI KOWADA GALLERY.

"You Are Beautiful" will be the first in 3 years since his last solo show in NY. He will be introducing the new series, which was created out of his unique point of view, to question the true beauty of human body.

With this series, Izima used a high-resolution digital camera to capture the human body as they are, to present the most honest image of it.

Showing intimate scars on the skin of the models, capturing every single pore, it will be the first experience for the viewers to confront the figure without a disguise.

This exhibition also presents the simplest answer to the pure curiosity of a childhood about human body. However, the almost frightening reality that an "honest" human body carries will surely arouse yet another question in each of us, asking timidly "are we really beautiful?" Izima ingeniously created a structure by choosing the model who has everything in common with us, that the subject matter whom we started to question of her beauty is not the model, but ourselves, mirrored by her.