Treed Codependency

전시 개요 OVERVIEW  ‘Treed Codependency’ This young artist’s territory has been expanded. The cacophony of the icons of shame, fake, displeasure, and hybrid, mixed with enigmatic metaphors, has become more intense as well. But such is the appeal of her works. The artist refers to her solo exhibitions in New York, London, Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Zurich, following her last exhibition at GalleryMEME in 2021, as a lifetime opportunity. She means this as a ‘female’ ‘Japanese’ artist ‘in her 30s’. Kaito Itsuki (皆藤 齋) does not bother intentionally excluding the elements of the unconscious as much as she neglects the social and cultural significance of the categories of her identity. The point at which the Chinese and European collectors find her works to be quintessentially Japanese and the response from her local audience that she is ‘un-Japanese’ are all interesting subjects for the artist. Her experiences in the art scene, in which the artists communicate with cultural diversity rather than language, should be a precious catalyst for the consistent pushing of the artistic boundaries for this young artist. Her second exhibition in Korea, Treed Codependency, unravels a peculiar scenery that combines unfamiliar and defamiliarized objects and icons ranging from her famous faceless men, birds that share human bodies, numbers and icons, blades and bondage tools to excretion. ‘Codependency’ in the title refers to a term in psychology that denotes a relationship in which an absence of the ego caused by the imbalanced relationship leads to a dysfunctional dependency on one another. A psychological phenomenon that lays a foundation for relationships, such as ‘empathy’, not only serves the purpose of bridging the gap between the agent and the object but concurrently functions as a mechanism that suppresses the Ego. Locating within the works a context that the title implies is not an easy errand, for the images on the canvas may only appear as mere collisions or independe

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