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Cheremoya is pleased to present A Broken Net Has Fewer Holes, Motoko Ishibashi’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery. Across six acrylic-on-canvas paintings, the acclaimed London-based Japanese artist metabolizes fanfiction-driven hentai through a pictorial circuitry attuned to systemic distortions within networked cultures. Throughout a richly integrative practice—spanning painting, performance, installation, video, photography, and print—she continually probes the conditions through which gendered self-determination and erotic autonomy are transculturally situated. In this fluidly recoded field, Ishibashi positions painting as an apertural relay between analytic legibility, quasi-subjective traces of bodily presence, and the hallucinatory contingencies of dispersed authorships.
Drawing on genealogies that traverse the codified polarities of East and West, the exhibition places the erotic subcultural imagination of postwar Japan into dialogue with the tranp…
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Cheremoya is pleased to present A Broken Net Has Fewer Holes, Motoko Ishibashi’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery. Across six acrylic-on-canvas paintings, the acclaimed London-based Japanese artist metabolizes fanfiction-driven hentai through a pictorial circuitry attuned to systemic distortions within networked cultures. Throughout a richly integrative practice—spanning painting, performance, installation, video, photography, and print—she continually probes the conditions through which gendered self-determination and erotic autonomy are transculturally situated. In this fluidly recoded field, Ishibashi positions painting as an apertural relay between analytic legibility, quasi-subjective traces of bodily presence, and the hallucinatory contingencies of dispersed authorships.
Drawing on genealogies that traverse the codified polarities of East and West, the exhibition places the erotic subcultural imagination of postwar Japan into dialogue with the tranp…
