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Yayoi Deki: Minority Flags at Perrotin Gallery


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Deki's work is renowned for its exquisitely detailed paintings, vibrant color palette, and distinctive finger-stamping technique, conveying a sense of utter purity and eternal adolescence. In the meticulously painted "Flags" series, her singular focus manifests in a collection of miniature faces, representing an element of transcendence within the pictorial plane.

Her paintings embody a primordial insanity that human nature attempts to conceal. This ambivalence is evident in the blissful drowning within a pool of colors, the innocence that encounters both wisdom and idiocy, and the mystical portrayal found in the intricate details.

Deki officially debuted in the group exhibition "Ground Zero Japan" at Art Tower Mito (1999), followed by notable group exhibitions such as "Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art" at Mori Art Museum (2007), the 7th Venice Biennale of Architecture (2000), and the 7th Lyon Biennial (2003). Her artwork has also been featured on record covers, and as one of the celebrated artists of the first decade of the 2000s, she continues to create her artwork with occasional adventures to wander.

Gallery address: 807, K11 Atelier Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui