KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY is pleased to announce the opening of Sayaka Toda’s solo exhibition, “Lying in the Land of Overgrown Weeds” on Saturday, April 8th, 2023. 

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Sayaka Toda has been attracting attention as a painter who connotes an implicit world of beauty and disfigurement, which are inextricably linked with each other. She also held a solo exhibition of photographic expressions only at Kana Kawanishi Photography in 2021, showing her universal expression regardless of media. In this solo exhibition at Kana Kawanishi Gallery, Toda will break new ground as an artist by composing the exhibition with not only her paintings but also photographs. 

In this exhibition, her motif is an atelier of a deceased artist which will soon be dismantled. The artist says that the countless plaster sculptures of female nudes rotting away in obscurity uncontrollably aroused her creative urge. In addition to the axis of beauty and disfigurement that has been a consistent theme to her, this exhibition also includes existence and oblivion, the human world and the natural world, the Western culture and the Eastern culture, women and men, and more others, reminding us that two opposing things are commonly at a root of one.

We cordially invite all to this occasion where Sayaka Toda, the artist genuinely concerned with cultivating and extracting her own worldview, will present a solo exhibition composed of  photography, a medium capturing the outside world, and paintings, a medium expressing one’s inner nature for the very first time.

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