Written by Saori Takeda, publisher of ART Driven Tokyo
Kanako Ozawa 2025
Acrylic, Clay Sand on Panel and Fabric 53×41cm
Courtesy of DCG and the Artist
Kanako Ozawa‘s solo exhibition “Small livings in our daily life” will be held at Dorothy Circus Gallery in London from April 4 to 30, 2025.
“The timing to release the cloud”
Kanako Ozawa 2025
Acrylic, Clay and Sand on Panel and Fabric 53.3×53.3cm
Courtesy of DCG and the Artist
“Form -Determination- No.2”
Kanako Ozawa 2025
Acrylic, Stone Dust, Cheesecloth 20×20×25cm
Courtesy of DCG and the Artist
A presence, faint yet certain,
in the quiet corners of daily life,
where words do not reach.
Hands layer white upon white,
tracing wishes, emotions,
and the warmth of memory.
A space woven,
like threads entwining,
soft, yet strong,
fragile, yet enduring.
What is wrapped
carries a thought,
caresses a feeling,
and speaks without sound.
To wrap is to hold,
to embrace, to conceal,
to protect, to separate,
to bind, yet release.
A gentle swelling,
a sigh of life,
found in the folds
of the unseen and the seen.
If you listen closely,
you may hear it—
the poetry of existence,
in things wrapped,
in things forgotten,
in the white that sways.
The exhibition is an attempt to explore the space between minimalism and figuration, with its roots in Japanese animism. Ozawa was born in 1988, studied media art at Tokyo Polytechnic University. The artist has been presenting her unique world view with the expression that goes back and forth between two dimensional and three dimensional works.
