Aki Moriyama and Satoshi Miyashita “Unspoken Toys”
We visited the two-person exhibition “Unspoken Toys” by Aki Moriyama and Satoshi Miyashita. The venue is MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY.
Aki Moriyama focuses on dolls and toys as a medium, and uses them as motifs to create paintings themed around complex “human dramas” that incorporate a range of social issues such as the body, gender and sexuality, and views of the family. By depicting dolls and toys, she believes she can express something that cannot be conveyed through human gestures alone, and that this in turn raises fundamental questions about human existence.
Satoshi Miyashita coins the term “Kibutsu Sonkai (Reverent Reworking of Vessels)” for his practice of re-firing and rearranging ready-made ceramics and ceramic pieces cast from toys, overwriting them as parts of his own works. He will primarily present this series. He focuses on the differences between industrial products, art, and craft, and on the “boundary of authorship” of the overwritten works.
“Unspoken Toys,” a two-person exhibition.
Though the works differ in medium — paintings on the one hand, ceramics on the other — both were united by a common atmosphere: pop, playful, and thoroughly enjoyable.
