For Moemi Yamamoto (1985), dreams are an inspiring part of life and a kind of refuge. Moemi Yamamoto graduated AVU in 2022 and is December 2023 is having her second solo show at Bold Gallery. Her paintings are characterized by a strange timelessness, stillness and a compulsive sense of alienation. A unique visual mode combines Japanese parallel perspective and gothic stylisation, leading to a symbolic reading. Although the paintings depict dreams, they react to our conscius world and say more about it than it may seem.
"...The figurative scenes in the paintings of Moemi Yamamoto have become frozen in timelessness. The strange life of the dead figures (alienated from human relationships) takes place in a fantasy architecture, in empty rooms with bare floors and frameless windows, in the monastic enclosure of walls, along stony paths or in the Byzantine luxury of palaces with fountains, fountains and oriental supraports. Or in the densely wooded landscapes with hills and paths, where cowering girls and women stare dreamily into the atmosphere of madness, while passing men pass them by and disappear into the distance.
In them we see, in a flat frontal view, exotic and common trees, houseplants, cabinets of curiosities, faithfully depicted with delicate painterly technique (and a great sense of capturing the material), shelves of poultry, collections of shells and shells, old books, flutes, flowers and dry fruits, broken branches, but also strange monumental sculptures of bronze prasops and lionets or aquariums in the roots of trees. And in these images of objects, in addition to the fairy-tale conversations between the things themselves and the play with perspective, there is a dense narrative of twilight..."