The Hikkikomori are young Japanese men in a situation of chosen isolation. It is also the title of the large-scale paintings of Ymane Chabi-Gara. From cultural discovery to language learning, Japan is at the heart of the artist’s imagination, « so far from Western references, it makes different things emerge, » she says. It is therefore her image that she glues on photographs found randomly on the Internet, oscillating between reappropriation of a globalized culture and post-internet imaginary. The word collage is not too much, because if the work is that of an accomplished painter, the form and the color are superimposed like the layers of a thought in construction, towards an abstract exploration of what the matter offers.
Represented by the Kamel Mennour Gallery
https://kamelmennour.com/artists/ymane-chabi-gara
Ana Bordenave
