Top image: A horse in the room, 2024, Oil on canvas, 194 × 324 cm
2.18 Tue. – 3.9 Sun. 2025
Venue: CADAN YURAKUCHO
Address: 1F Kokusai Building, 3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11-19pm, Sat, Sun, national holidays 11-17pm
Closed: Mon (or the following weekday if the Monday is a public holiday)
Opening reception: 2.18 (Tue) 18:00-20:00
Imura art gallery is pleased to present Kanna Takase‘s solo exhibition Read your Diary at CADAN Yurakucho.
Takase’s practice involves taking notes about occurrences and things that bother her in everyday life, putting them into words, and then creating paintings based on those words. By taking peoples’ innermost feelings that cannot be communicated in words and replacing them with animals, plants, and objects depicted in a vibrant style that engenders a perceptual gap between the paintings and the original feelings, she finds stories that are humorous despite their disturbing content.
This exhibition features major works that Takase presented in December 2024 as the guest artist in Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2025, as well as new works created this year. Takase’s paintings give form to her words, and can be viewed as if reading a diary.
Artist Statement
In the course of our lives, we all have similar complex experiences, and there are many things that we can share. The title of this exhibition, “Read Your Diary,” alludes to my hope that viewers will enjoy layering their own everyday lives onto the objects and animals in my paintings, as if finding themselves in the pages of another person’s diary.
Kanna Takase
