Ikkan Art Gallery is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of Japanese media artist, Naoko Tosa. Following her projection mapping exercise at the Kyoto National Museum, TOSA RIMPA: The Places You Will Never Visit breathes new life into the historical Rimpa school of Japanese painting. It presents Tosa’s reimagining and reinterpretations of traditional Japanese culture and imagery through six new video works.
With her characteristic use of media and video, Tosa further expands on the notion of creative destruction, as both a thing of beauty and an ominous force. Nature remains a central motif in her video works, its hidden beauty often threshed out by its destruction. Against sharp vicissitudes of colors and textures, beginnings and ends intermingle in swift elegiac motions where flowers are ruined and restored, broken down before they are reconstructed again.
Contrary to common belief, Tosa’s visuals are not digitally rendered. The various elements and phenomena depicted are all real and composed at her studio with the videos shot using an ultra-high speed camera.
