Reiko Kinoshita

Born in Kumamoto prefecture in 1982, Reiko graduated from the Musashino Art University in 2009, with specialization in oil painting. Fascinated by the frontier between intention and unconsciousness in art creation, she has developed a specific technique that combines photographic paper exposed to sunlight with paint spraying, creating wrinkles and folds to form shapes on canvas. When looking at her paintings one realizes that something was there before, but is not anymore; only the silhouette, the memory of the shape remains after time has passed.

Reiko's paintings, mainly on paper and fabric reveal what goes on and what used to be, capturing the passage of time itself within the work. It starts with the presence of something rather than nothing. As the artist once said "There will be morning and there will be night."