Skeleton in the closet
A solo exhibition by VITALFISH September 27th — October 19th, 2024
Opening Friday, September 27th from 4:00 - 6:30pm
A solo exhibition by VITALFISH September 27th — October 19th, 2024
Opening Friday, September 27th from 4:00 - 6:30pm
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Wada Garou Tokyo is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition Skeleton in the closet by VITALFISH. In our societies, the majority is often seen as the social standard and those who are seen as deviating from this standard are seen as minorities. In many cases, minorities are seen as wrong or in need of correction, and their existence is made transparent. In this exhibition, the gallery space is transformed into a wardrobe into which the viewer enters in search of the skeleton. The title 'Skeleton in the closet' is a foreign proverb meaning 'a secret you don't want people to see', with the closet as the norm in contemporary society and the skeleton as a metaphor for a transparent existence. This integral act of visualizing and recognizing a transparency of existence encourages people to think proactively about issues they have been watching from the sidelines. ARTIST STATEMENT The focus of my work is the subject and the other, the essential and the non-essential. Since childhood I have had a problem with the gap between the ideal image that others have of me and my self-image. On the one hand, I may feel safe taking on roles assigned by others. But this is an act of choosing to become an 'other' without reciprocity, making myself an unessential 'object' that torments me. My creation aims to make visible people who have been objectified and made transparent, thus transforming spectators into subjects and creating a gradual solidarity. I go on making work to transform our society into a place where we can love ourselves and live as essential at all times.
PROFILE VITALFISH (b.1996, Tokyo) 2016 Admitted to the Department of Crafts at Tokyo University of the Arts 2021 Started making self-taught oil paintings. 2022 BA, Tokyo University of the Arts 2023 Accepted Idemitsu Art Award 2023 Selected exhibitions: 2024 Jimbocho ‘Cat's Bookshelf’ mini solo exhibition of cats and books IAG ARTIST SELLECTION Ikebukuro Kaiyuha Art Exhibition 2024 Kinosumi Artspace - First exhibition 2023 Idemitsu Art Award展 2023 Geidai Myth - GEISHIN Living with Traces - Art and food exhibition in a 90-year-old former noodle shop 2022 MET“Y”AVERSE The 70th Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Works Exhibition 2019 The exhibition of craft works by seven students of Tokyo University of the Arts 2017 About one. 
Untitled H890×W615, oil on canvas, 2024
INFORMATION
A solo exhibition by VITALFISH -Skeleton in the closet- September 27th – October 19, 2024 Opening Friday, September 27th from 4:00-6:30pm Tuesday to Saturday 1:00 - 6:30 WADA GAROU TOKYO Lab. Matsuzawa 8 Bldg. 3F, 3-5-16 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 
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