KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY is pleased to present “Romantic Action,” a solo exhibition by Shoma Fujimura starting December 14, 2024.​

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Shoma Fujimura is an artist who creates kinetic works combining various materials such as junk and metal. He has been attracting attention since he was a graduate student at Tokyo University of the Arts, where he received a special prize at the “18th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art.” The solo exhibition “Real Life Escape Room” (2020), held as part of the artist unit 鯰 [Namazu] with Yoshiki Omote and Taichi Moriyama, attracted much attention.

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In this exhibition, his first solo show at KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY in three years, he will create a space with new kinetic works based on the series Romantic Stone. In Romantic Stone, two small stones rotate, move up and down, left and right, and come as close as possible to each other. There will surely be moments when they touch each other without the viewer’s eyes. Living in a modern society where automation is accelerating at an accelerated pace, we are inevitably drawn to these works of art, which are machines that move erratically and randomly.

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Contemporary society, which seeks efficiency to the limit by continually updating machinery, is also a society that demands ‘easy-to-understand’ stories at an accelerating pace. The seemingly meaningless movements of stones that could be anywhere, and the ostentatious devices used to achieve them, are the exact opposite of this. However, the ‘nondescript stones’ also condense transitions and coincidences that transcend the human timescale.

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We hope you will look forward to this exhibition, which will bring a philosophical point of view with Fujimura’s unique and humorous sensitivity to the question of what romance is and where meaning lies while confronting the movement of things in a flexible and honest way.