Wealthy trio, 2020
Kumikaho Oshima

Sculpture : LED, paper, plexiglass

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

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

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Street art

Pop Art

Barbie

Dollars

Japan

Neo-Pop

Tokyo

Green

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Artwork location: France

Wealthy Trio is a luminous artwork by Kumikaho Oshima from the series Luminous Transactions : Barbie Chronicles in Currency Boxes, where the artist stages a dense accumulation of U.S. dollar bills inside a LED-backlit case whose inner walls are printed with repeated Barbie portraits. The elongated horizontal format transforms currency into a textured landscape, shifting the viewer’s attention from monetary value to visual rhythm and material presence. By compressing the bills into a compact surface, Oshima converts symbols of exchange into a contemplative field, inviting a slower, more analytical gaze.
The relief created by layered banknotes captures light unevenly, producing subtle variations that resemble a topography of abundance. Against this tactile foreground, the Barbie portraits emerge as visual anchors, embodying ideals of aspiration, self-projection, and standardized beauty. Their repetition establishes a dialogue between personal identity and economic measurement, suggesting how cultural expectations often intersect with material benchmarks of success.
LED illumination plays a crucial role in shaping perception, enhancing depth while revealing the spectral presence of the printed figures. The glow generates a delicate tension between image and object, guiding the eye across surfaces where desire and value appear inseparable. Through this luminous framework, Oshima proposes a reading in which worth is constructed through both visibility and imagination.
In Wealthy Trio, repetition becomes narrative structure. The three Barbie silhouettes act as visual markers that punctuate the composition, echoing the constant circulation of global symbols within contemporary culture. This arrangement implies that identity is continually negotiated through recurring imagery, while economic systems provide the often-invisible architecture behind these projections.
On a sociological level, the artwork reflects how contemporary expectations of femininity are frequently aligned with indicators of material achievement. By juxtaposing currency with idealized portraits, Oshima highlights the proximity between social validation and financial representation, revealing the fragility of these frameworks when multiplied and standardized.
A major member of the CrazyNoodles studio, founded by Hiro Ando, Oshima situates this piece within a Neo-Pop vocabulary where light, repetition, and popular iconography function as tools for cultural analysis. Her practice transforms universal symbols into reflective devices that expose the mechanisms of aspiration, projection, and collective memory.
Through its precise visual construction, luminous balance, and conceptual clarity, Wealthy Trio stands out as a compelling example of contemporary Japanese Neo-Pop. With its layered symbolism, refined execution, and immediate visual impact, Wealthy Trio asserts itself as a highly collectible work, particularly suited for collectors of contemporary Japanese art and for those seeking pieces that explore the intersections of economic value, cultural imagery, and projected identity.

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galerie jacob paulett • France

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Japan  • 1986

Presentation

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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