Eri Fukami “You know who I am.”
I visited Eri Fukami’s solo exhibition “You know who I am.” The venue is MEDEL GALLERY SHU.
Eri Fukami is an art student at Tokyo University of the Arts, entering her third year in the 2022 academic year.
“You know who I am.”
You know who I am.
What is the “consciousness” that human beings possess?
Why does the world exist?
Why was I born?
These are things I took for granted as a child. When did I stop thinking about them?
I make my works out of others (society) and the small, everyday incidents of daily life.
Remembering things I had forgotten is quite difficult,
but through, say, a scent, I can recall a particular place, a specific person, an event.
These “instant” moments are precious connections between me and myself, and things I want to note down.
And from the ordinary days I have lived and the colors and air I have felt,
within the transposed matter of paint, the trace of the brush, and the passage of time, the world (the work) is completed only when a viewer is present.
At some point, the figure I draw ceases to be “me,” and, changing its appearance and shape, comes to exist within everyone.
An “I” who is nobody in particular, and a “you.”
The story (the everyday) known only to me leaves the artist’s hand and becomes, uniquely, your own original.
Eri Fukami
Sales have been strong, and Fukami is one of the most talked-about young artists of the moment.
I look forward to seeing where her practice goes from here.
