A solo exhibition by Japanese artist Yasuhito Kawasaki (b.1983). Beginning from self-portraiture, his gaze never settles on a single self; beings with similar faces gently blur the boundaries between self and other, human and non-human, reality and imagination.
Held simultaneously at Lina Gallery Seoul and Busan, the exhibition revolves around the recurring 'Blue Bear' and asks, "To whom do the blue sea and green nature truly belong?" Springing from realities such as bears losing their food and habitat as humans expand their settlements, and a river granted legal "sovereignty," the artist's reflection questions whether nature might be regarded as an entity equal to humankind.
Alongside the Blue Bear, motifs of apples, birds, a boy, a girl, and a tiger function not as fixed symbols but as mediators layering sensation, memory, and thought. After encountering Lévi-Strauss's "The Savage Mind," the apple came to symbolize, for the artist, "a sensibility that exists before explanation or judgment."
