Haruku Yamakawa: SUPER SUPER MARKET 2022

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Supermarket – This place is probably the most frequently visited place in our daily life, and we can also find large and small articles needed for life in this place. When you step into the supermarket, will you find the goods you need as quickly as possible and then walk to the cashier to pay the bill, or will you walk slowly and enjoy the dazzling goods on the shelves of the supermarket to bring you a feeling of both familiarity and freshness? Do you feel that it may be our spiritual oasis somtimes? Or you may ask what else is fresh in the supermarket? Not to mention the seemingly great psychological adjective oasis of mind.

It is true that some people really enjoy shopping in supermarkets. The time will return to the world at the beginning of 2020. There is also a fear of epidemic disease embedded in all parts of the world. Every corner of the earth announces the closure order in turn every day, which leads to the luxury of even the most basic opportunity to go out to the supermarket to buy food. At this moment, are the basic needs of life really the most basic at this time? The dull and uneasy mood was trapped by four thick cement walls and had no place to vent. In disguise, going out to the supermarket once a week became the only fun. Gradually, I noticed different people and things when I was in the supermarket, which enriched my depressed mood at that time. Supermarket and oasis of the soul, two words far away from the sky, probably connected at this time.

HARUKA YAMAKAWA, an artist with a childlike painting style, comes from Japan. She likes to get inspiration from life experience. Her works attract the public’s attention with simple and powerful lines and bold colors. The picture is full of jumping thinking and personalized creative elements of the author, which makes people feel refreshed. The seemingly childish painting style coupled with high color contrast and her style that is both familiar and a bit whimsical has become a highly self colored feature. In addition to painting, ceramics are also a creative medium that Yamakawa likes to use very much. Carrying out the author’s childlike style, the lovely ceramic figurines let us start the innocence that has been sealed in our hearts for a long time.

HARUKA YAMAKAWA’s works are bright and colorful, which can catch the audience’s eyes at the first sight. In addition, taking the supermarket, a familiar place, as the initial ideas of work can easily resonate with the public. The work records people and things in the supermarket with a lively and interesting rhythm. For example, the author uses ceramics as a medium to reproduce the household milk commonly seen in supermarkets. At the snack department of the colorful supermarket, we have a lot of delicious snacks in our cart, but we still can’t stop the craving for snacks and want to try more sweet cream. And the warm and sweet scene of an injured girl who doesn’t know how to go to the supermarket with her feet, however her best friend stroll the trolley with her.