Yukino Yamanaka - AMATEUR vol.10

Yukino Yamanaka - AMATEUR vol.10

2025.11.28 (Fri) – 2026.2.3 (Tue)

AMATEUR vol.10

Artist
Yukino Yamanaka, Rika Minamitani
Venue:H BEAUTY&YOUTH
Reception:2025年11月28日(金)17:00~20:00
Term:会期:2025年11月28日(金)~ 2026年2月3日(火)予定

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本展は、1990年代後半生まれの新鋭ペインターとして国内外で注目を集める山中雪乃と南谷理加による二人展です。両者は一貫して「人物」を中心に描き続けながらも、現代の人間像をどのように捉えるかという点で異なる方向性を示しています。

山中は、身体の輪郭とその内側に潜む非人間的な気配を捉えるように、具象と抽象の境界を往還します。光を遮る影や画面に浮かぶ空白、液体のように流れる形象によって、「私」が何か別の存在へと変容していく過程を示唆します。また、セルフィー的なポーズや表情の引用は、SNS時代における自己像の揺らぎ──見せるための姿が内面を侵食していく現代的な不安──を鋭く可視化しています。

一方、南谷は絵画を「実験」と位置づけ、直感的な試行錯誤を通して特定の意味を伝える手段でも、視覚効果の追求のみでもない表現を探ります。様々な表情の人物やモチーフ、色面などの視覚イメージが重なり合い、どこか物語を感じさせる気配をまといながら、画面には軽い緊張が漂っています。

本展で二人の作品が並ぶことで、現代の人間像がもつ多層性が、異なる方向から立ち上がってきます。山中は身体と影のあいだに潜む「未完の存在」を追い、南谷は絵画という媒体が抱える「ふるまいの不確かさ」を手がかりに、像が立ち上がる瞬間の違和感を探ります。方法は異なりますが、両者はともに人物のあり方を単一の像に収めず、その揺らぎや多層性を表現の中心に据えています。

二つの視線が交錯することで、鑑賞者は「見ること」の不確かさと向き合うことになります。そこに立ち現れるのは、完成された肖像ではなく、常に変化しつづける私たち自身の姿です。本展は、現代における「人間のリアリティ」がどこに宿るのかを問いかける、静かな対話の場となります。


This exhibition presents a two-person show by Yukino Yamanaka and Rika Minamitani, two emerging painters born in the late 1990s who have been gaining attention both in Japan and abroad. While both artists consistently center their practices on the depiction of the human figure, they diverge in how they approach and interpret contemporary images of the human.

Yamanaka moves fluidly between figuration and abstraction, as if tracing the contours of the body together with the nonhuman presence that lurks within it. Shadows that block the light, voids that surface on the picture plane, and forms that flow like liquid all hint at a self in the process of transforming into something other. Her references to selfie-like poses and expressions sharply expose a distinctly contemporary anxiety—the instability of self-image in the age of social media, where the act of showing oneself gradually erodes the interior.

Minamitani, by contrast, positions painting as an “experiment,” probing her own sense of reality through intuitive trial and error. Her figures, marked by expressions of surprise or bewilderment, counter the simplicity of their facial features with exaggeratedly large hands and tattoo-like linear markings, as if inner impulses were seeping outward. Multiple layers of visual imagery overlap, creating a subtle sense of narrative tension that permeates the picture plane.

By placing the works of these two artists side by side, the exhibition reveals the layered nature of the human figure in contemporary painting from two distinct angles. Yamanaka pursues the “unfinished being” that exists between body and shadow, while Minamitani explores the “instability of gesture” inherent in painting itself, seeking the slight dissonance that appears at the moment an image takes shape. Though their methods differ, both resist fixing the figure into a singular form, instead making its fluidity and multiplicity central to their practice.

As these perspectives intersect, viewers are invited to confront the uncertainty inherent in the act of seeing. What emerges is not a completed portrait, but a reflection of ourselves—constantly shifting and in flux. This exhibition offers a quiet space for considering where “human reality” resides in the present day.