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World of Bliss and Misery
text by O JUN

Last fall, I was asked by the gallery to curate a group exhibition. I thought it was going to be a show of young artists, but as they asked me to throw in my own work as well, the lineup eventually looked like this: ISHII Yuuka, YAMAWAKI Kousuke, Dat, and myself. That’s three painters and one breakdancer, an artist called Dat. The four of us will show works at Mizuma’s exhibition space.

That Ishii Yuuka’s paintings look somehow familiar, is due to the elements that she is borrowing from European classical paintings, such as animals, background …