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Higa, Aya

Kyoto City University of Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Oil Painting
1988年Born in Kyoto Prefecture
2011年Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Major in Oil Painting
2013年Completed Oil Painting Department, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts
Aya Hika
Aya Hika | Untitled 2012 920×3660mm Wood, glitter, sequins, Others
Untitled 2012 920×3660mm Wood, glitter, sequins, Others
Author's comment

It's better to talk about serious things while laughing. It's meaningless if it's not interesting.

Judge's review

Bulletin boards with election posters are familiar to see on street corners. Hika has successfully transformed this decaying wooden board, which was said to have been on campus, into a found object decorated with sparkling sequins. By decorating the bulletin board, which is one of the tools built into the election system, with tools of Hikka's desires, there is also a hidden spirit of humor towards Japan's modern society. (Yuka Uematsu)

By adding ``feminine'' decorations such as glitter and sequins or commentary intervention to ``masculine'' social subjects such as politics and economics, she attempts to lightly deconstruct the context and value of the subject. There is. The reality of being a young Japanese female artist, which is the opposite of Dan Ho's style of criticism where she creates everyday objects with gold, is manifested in her restrained use of kitsch. (Yuko Hasegawa)