I am a contemporary artist living and practicing in London, where I am pursuing my studies at the Royal College of Art.

 

Born in Yamanashi and living in Tokyo, I grew up within numerous guidelines of how I ‘should be and behave’. My art practice focuses on the social and group pressures imposed on individuals, shaped by the rules and pressures of society and groups, and the prejudices based on lookism, and it confronts the alienating cultural factors that affected me early on.

 

My art practices stem from my own idealistic sense of inferiority, and my work focuses mainly on the ‘relationship’ between others, myself, and the outside world.

 

To question these idealistic and normative concepts of society, I work with a variety of everyday materials that are often seen as non-traditional, such as words, cosmetics, paper and sound alongside constructing and destroying boundaries using various media, from painting to installation. The works aim to subvert our perception those normative stereotypes in the world around us by drawing attention to their brutalities.

 

My artistic process links personal history, experiences and memories with a public context that reflects on social ills caused by the duality of the individual and society, past and present, and the questioning of traditional concepts. Through my work, it is also an exploration of the notion of spontaneity, which has been excluded as a hostage of 'good morals'.