YUTAKA KIKUTAKE GALLERY

YUKARI MOTOYAMA, FUTOSHI MIYAGI: BIRDS

This two-person exhibition includes new work by Yukari Motoyama, an oil painter by training whose works deconstruct the various elements that make up painting, and Futoshi Miyagi, known for a practice that confronts his own identity as a sexual minority. It is inspired by the otherness of birds as hidden presences and sudden visitors in our urban lives, and their uniqueness as motifs with biological mysteries and histories behind them. Specifically, these works by Motoyama and Miyagi are based on representations of birds in modern and contemporary Japanese literature and music.