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Kumikaho Oshima, Elegy in plastic,
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Kumikaho Oshima, Elegy in plastic,
Kumikaho Oshima, Elegy in plastic,
Kumikaho Oshima, Elegy in plastic,
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Kumikaho Oshima, Elegy in plastic,
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Kumikaho Oshima, Elegy in plastic,
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Kumikaho Oshima, Elegy in plastic,
Kumikaho Oshima, Elegy in plastic,
Kumikaho Oshima, Elegy in plastic,

Elegy in plastic, 2020
Kumikaho Oshima

Sculpture : LED, plastic, plexiglass

28 x 71 x 20 cm 11 x 28 x 7.9 inch

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Medium

Sculpture: LED, plastic, plexiglass

Dimensions cm • inch

28 x 71 x 20 cm 11 x 28 x 7.9 inch Height x Width x Depth

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The sculpture cannot be displayed outdoors

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Nude

Pop Art

Barbie

Backlight

Skull

Dollars

Neo-Pop

Beige

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Artwork location: France

Elegy in Plastic is a striking illuminated artwork by Kumikaho Oshima from the series Luminous Transactions : Barbie Chronicles in Currency Boxes, where the artist stages a dense accumulation of plastic Barbie dolls inside a LED-backlit case whose inner walls are printed with skull motifs derived from American dollar bill engravings. The compressed arrangement of the dolls generates a tactile visual field, oscillating between playful familiarity and conceptual unease, inviting viewers to reconsider the emotional weight of mass-produced icons.
The composition emphasizes repetition as a narrative device: identical bodies layered together form a collective silhouette that evokes both abundance and erasure of individuality. By enclosing these figures within a luminous frame, Oshima transforms the dolls into artifacts of cultural memory, suggesting how globalized beauty standards are circulated, archived, and internalized. The Barbie figure, once a symbol of aspiration, becomes here a reflective surface for questioning identity construction in contemporary society.
The skull imagery printed on the interior walls introduces a subtle memento mori, counterbalancing the pastel tones of the dolls with a reminder of impermanence. This juxtaposition generates a powerful dialogue between vitality and fragility, consumer desire and existential awareness. The LED glow enhances this tension, casting soft shadows that animate the plastic forms while exposing their artificiality.
Within the broader framework of Neo-Pop aesthetics, the artwork explores how economic symbolism and pop culture imagery intersect to shape collective imagination. Oshima’s choice to isolate Barbie figures—without the simultaneous presence of currency—creates a focused meditation on projection, aspiration, and the psychological imprint of standardized femininity. The viewer is encouraged to navigate the layered meanings between nostalgia, commodification, and self-representation.
As a major member of the CrazyNoodles studio, founded by Hiro Ando, Oshima contributes to a contemporary dialogue that merges light, repetition, and iconic imagery into analytical visual systems. Her practice reveals how cultural symbols can be reframed to expose the emotional and ideological structures beneath their surface appeal.
Through Elegy in Plastic, the artist constructs a contemplative environment where accumulation becomes metaphor, illumination becomes inquiry, and the familiar becomes subtly unsettling. The work stands as a refined example of Japanese Neo-Pop’s ability to transform everyday objects into vehicles for introspection.
Through its precise composition, layered symbolism, and luminous presence, Elegy in Plastic asserts itself as a highly collectible piece. A work particularly suited for collectors of contemporary Japanese art, Neo-Pop, and artworks exploring identity, cultural memory, and the psychology of visual consumption.

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Kumikaho Oshima
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Japan  • 1986

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Kumikaho Oshima is a Japanese artist born in 1986 in Tokyo.

All of her work revolves around two main topics; Barbie dolls and American dollars. She seeks to illustrate the actual condition of young women in Japan through her satirical work by criticizing the excessive implantation of Western tendencies in Japanese culture and art as well as the appropriation of capitalist symbols and values. The artist evokes the revolution of Japanese women's manners and desires in her paintings, who in a traditional and limited society began to perceive money as a source of power. Barbie dolls represent the Western physical ideal and the dollar bills play the role of an essential good to female emancipation.

From an aesthetic point of view, her work belongs to the Japanese Neo-pop art movement represented by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Oshima work is subtle, she limits the use of colors, she prefers to use earthyand fresh tonalities, which can sometimes give an impression of whashed out to her work but this impression is compensated by the sensual and emotional scenes that she depicts. She uses certain photographic techniques such as zooming or not placing the subject in the center of the frame without making the scenes more dramatic or dynamic.

With time, Kumikaho Oshima has developed a strong and easily recognizable style. Her work is present at the Jacob Paullet Gallery.

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