Shinpei Okawa

Unwitting Alterations, Promised Encounters
​May 10th — June 1st, 2024

Wada Garou Tokyo is proud to present a solo exhibition by Shinpei Okawa.

Okawa combines fragments of his own memories and art history to create a multi-layered expression. The world that evokes a sense of nostalgia seems to trace the artist's childhood memories and the accumulation of past experiences that have built him up.

Invisible memories and the self that lives in reality, is there anything certain? Scattered figures and shadows evoke fragments of one's own memories, and the dizzying overlap of scenery and motif invites the viewer into a world that transcends mental landscapes.



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ARTIST STATEMENT 

While ruminating, childhood memories continue to grow, unconsciously disconnected from actual things.

Every few years, I find myself drawn to visit the city where I used to live. Some aspects are nostalgic, connected to my memories of that time, while other aspects have changed and feel like a strange city.

When a question mark appears on my childhood memory that was growing inside of me, I am confronted with a change that I was not aware of and I am reminded of how insecure I am.

​I see my past self in the nostalgic landscape. It is not an altered memory, but another me, but can this presence, like a sign, really be said to be certain?


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INFORMATION
A Solo Exhibition by Shinpei Okawa
May 10th — June 1st, 2024

​Opening Friday, May 10th from 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Tuesday - Saturday 1:00 – 6:30 PM
 
Wada Garou Tokyo
Matsuzawa 10 Bldg. 3F, 3-5-16 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 1040061
Tel/Fax：03-6263-2404 ｜ Email：[email protected]

PROFILE
Shinpei Okawa (b. 1983, Tokyo) got a BA in Oil Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2007, and received a MAF in Oil Painting from the same university in 2009. Based in Tokyo, he has held solo and group exhibitions in Japan and abroad. Confronting "time" from his own unique perspective, such as the transience of changing landscapes and his own memories, he paints a multi-layered world of his mind by combining various motifs. His works are in the public collections of Teikyo University and Gwangju Museum of Art (Korea).
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