VERSIÓN ESPAÑOLA

Ayako Rokkaku’s paintings exist in a world untethered, a space where time is fluid and forms dissolve as quickly as they appear. Her work resists fixed narratives, embracing the ephemeral and the infinite process of becoming. Across her canvases, figures hover in dreamlike states, slipping between presence and absence, embodying both familiarity and strangeness. There is a weightless quality to her handwork, a delicate transience that mirrors the essence of mono no aware, the Japanese aesthetic of impermanence—where every moment is both fleeting and deeply felt.

In her latest and most ambitious work Paradise, a monumental 3 x 6 meters diptych, Rokkaku reaches toward an ever-shifting vision of paradise—a contemporary response to Tintoretto’s celestial expanse. Yet, her world does not imitate the past; it reimagines it, filtering centuries-old compositions through a lens where boundaries blur and definitions slip away. Hers is not a static paradise but a space of perpetual transformation. Her paintings do not capture singular moments; they are in constant motion, dissolving and reforming, carrying the echoes of a world in transition.

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A Reverie Between Worlds

A Landscape of Shifting Forms

The Beauty of the In-Between

A Floating World of Emotion