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| Whether performing in the faux-fur costume of a rodent or painting
small animals hidden in sinister forests, Kojima creates a world
brimming with the complex and cynical. This solo exhibition features
her latest paintings and three-dimensional objects of tragicomic
creatures. The animals in her paintings are solo, left by themselves
in a dark forest in silence but given a sense of strength with the
artist’s aggressive brush strokes. A sculpture with an upper body
of a hamster and a lower body of a female lies captivatingly with
spared legs, but her body stiffened and expression frowned. Anticipation
and fear seem to coexist, as if to reflect a young girl’s mixed
feelings about sex. Kojima’s work borders with sex fantasies, and
at the same time hints irony and sadness of human existence. |
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