Painting to Communicate with the Unknown

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This exhibition presents new works that explore communication with unknown others, reflecting the artist's recent engagement with her father's messages and the idea of painting as a means to connect with the future and unknown people.

The artist explores the possibility of painting by confronting the continuity within it, viewing painting not as a means to express existing images, but as a method to touch spaces that do not yet exist.

Natsuko Sakamoto was born in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1983 and lives in Tokyo. She graduated from the Graduate School of Art, Aichi Prefectural University of Arts in 2012. She has participated in group exhibitions such as 'Colors — Approaching the Secrets of Color from Impressionism to Contemporary Art' (2024) and 'Magic / Art — The Technology of Illusion and the Inner Otherworld' (2012). She has also held solo exhibitions, including 'ARKO 2013 Natsuko Sakamoto' (2013). Her works are collected in public collections such as Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, Aichi Prefectural University of Arts, and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.