YUKA KASHIHARA
Yuka Kashihara was born in the prefecture of Hiroshima, Japan in 1980. She graduated from Musashino Art University in 2006, majoring in Japanese Painting. In 2006, she moved to Germany and enrolled in the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig in 2007.
Kashihara creates rich and deep colors by laying thin layers of oil paint in the technique of Japanese painting, which she learned during her studies in Japan. In the world of her work, existing sceneries and imaginary inner spaces are woven together. Kashihara developed such practices after leaving Japan and working in Germany. Another area of interest is focused on the subject of “distances”; physical distance between Germany and Japan, emotional distance with people and both cultures, and the distance inside of herself as Japanese and her living in Germany. Experiencing these “distances” has turned her motif such as the cave, the mountain, and the lake into the expressions that convey her deep reflexivity.
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