Venues
Blue Velvet
Courtesy of the artist and Blue Velvet Projects
Kaito Itsuki’s oil paintings on canvas display the creation of new mythological figures and fictional organisms. By highlighting the deformity or alienation of these figures, she reflects the process of human self-identification. Her works are characterized by vivid colors and an arrangement of fantastical motifs set within a disquieting atmosphere, including men without faces, cups with faces and subjects that are associated with violence, such as tools with sharp pointed claws.
Zürich
Courtesy of the artist
Under the polished surfaces, BASTARDS proves a murky basin of pop culture references that is almost too laden with association to wade through at ease. Through crossbreeding ready-made opposing narratives, Kneer’s BASTARDS riff on themes of morality and the narcissistic self. In the reflection of the shimmering muck, stars are born, identities are lost, witches are burned by barbies, and ecstasy seamlessly blends into terror.
Zürich