Artist Shimpei YOSHIDA

Working primarily with painting, the artist is currently based in Tokyo. Prompted by the experience surrounding the death of his grandmother, he began a portrait series that marked a turning point in his practice. In 2018, he participated in an artist-in-residence program at the artist-run space FRISE in Hamburg, Germany. Engaging with themes such as existence and absence, and memory and forgetting, his work questions the fragility and significance of what is difficult to perceive, what has been forgotten, and what remains invisible—within a contemporary society that often assumes everything that is "seen" can be shared universally with others.