Tokyo Wonder Site has been continually discovering, nurturing and supporting young artists with "Tokyo Wonder Wall" and the associated "TWS-Emerging" exhibition, as well as through various residency programs since 2001. During the ten years of our activity, a large number of artists have grown up, many of whom are today working on the international stage. Observing works made by young artists in recent years, we noticed that quite a few of them have been choosing "island" themes. Artists painting the islands they were born on; artists working on islands; artists addressing the modalities of islands in our time... While working by different approaches and methods, it seems that each of them has found his or her own new values by depicting islands.

In this exhibition, works incorporating those precious "islands" and their respective views worked out by each participating artist mix and reverberate, to eventually create one island landscape. 

Artists: Masanori Ikeda, Maki Ohkojima, Toshihiro Komatsu, Chiho Hayashi,
Kanae Murakami and Kana Yoshida

*image (left)
Dizzy Turn of Seongsan Ilchulbong, 2012,
Oil pastel, Crayon, Paper
© Kana Yoshida