We visited Yuka Sakuma’s solo exhibition. The venue is Miura Jiro Gallery.
—Pure white: that nothing is there.
—Pure black: to become single-minded.I think about the world of “what if.”
“What if” is regret, and it is hope.Every day is a chain of choices — some paths I took without a second thought, others I chose only after long deliberation.
Returning to the countless forks in the road, I let my mind wander through the “what ifs.”
I built my world by piling up “what if, back then.”I met a pure-white me and a pure-black me.
I will present fifteen Nihonga works, mostly new pieces.
I look forward to your visit.Yuka Sakuma
Yuka Sakuma paints singular young women within an aestheticist worldview.
Each work builds its own inventive world, so within a single gallery a multitude of stories coexisted.
The strange world painted in the F50-size major work Nesting in a Dream was captivating.
The motifs and props, the perspective, the composition — a piece full of conviction. Wonderful!
