I went to see Keika Kanba’s solo exhibition, held at Roentgenwerke (Bakurocho / Asakusabashi).
Keika Kanba
Keika Kanba “Ω ohm”
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“Ω ohm” ＠Roentgenwerke
Keika Kanba’s first solo exhibition in four years, since 2013. Taking the delicacy of the human condition as her theme, she has expressed the human body through a distinctive style of depiction. This time she puts forward the concept “Ω ohm” (ohm = electrical resistance), turning her gaze toward human existence, which at first glance appears fragile.
Just what is this thing we call a human being? She depicts that existence—one that conceals strength within its weakness—in figures built up gradually, layer upon layer, in extremely pale colors.
Summary
“Resistance”—the keyword she focused on in order to express human strength.
We expend energy by resisting, and the women in her works are rendered with pale, delicate touches, appearing at first glance to be extremely fragile beings. Even so, the venom that emerges from each individual work seems to bare its fangs at the “indifference” that pervades our age, and that is what makes them so distinctive.
