Momoko Yoshida
Ee.p. Ecume sharing
Atami is a city with many mysteries and strange stories. People talk about sunken ruins under the sea and lots of ghost sightings in the streets. We don’t know if these stories are true, but they make Atami feel magical and a little scary. To me, it’s like the city is full of mystery “bubbles” that you can’t touch.
In this art show, I mix the stories I’ve heard in Atami with my own ideas. I try to connect with these invisible things through my art.
Yoshida completed her BA in oil painting at Kyoto City University of Arts and went on to postgraduate studies in painting at the same university.
Born in Hyogo prefecture in 1989, she currently lives and works in Chiba. Using the heightened senses when listening to music and the images in mind as a starting point, Yoshida creates independent paintings with images that can be shared with others.
Yoshida sets up personalities from people around her as well as contemporary icons, and through a production process that traverses between digital and analogue worlds, she makes multifaceted portraits of young people that can be seen as real people, virtual avatars or cartoon characters.
