In "one view", the subject is shifted from the phenomenon of existence flickering according to perception, which was dealt with in the Garando series, to a specific space, "an anonymous place where there is existence."
By creating an anonymous and unnameable landscape, I aim to elicit the viewer's memories and create a double image with the painting in front of them.
The work is like co-creating a near-abstract figurative landscape woven with our common deep memories.
The landscape that outlines have been obscured by memory overwriting, the smell and humidity of the air at a certain moment, the light of day, the sky at the moment the sun sets, and so on.
Small fragments of those memories are layered on top of each other like a thin film.
For example, there is a word "twilight" which refers to the time around sunset.
One of the origins of the word is said to be "the state in which it is hard to tell who the person is because it is moderately dark."
This can be said to be a problem of a situation where visibility is poor due to insufficient light source, but I feel that it contains a very poetic nuance.
I don't know what to call something in the shape of a person that the outline has become obscured.
I am working as if I had replaced that with a place.
The works created in that way are composed of limited landscapes in each film itself. They are anonymous landscapes with vague time and form as a whole.
The memories stored in each viewer's mind are suddenly awakened by who sees the landscape. I would like to express the experience in my works.
Nami OKADA
WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.37：Canvas of a Narrative
2024/09/13 -2024/09/29
WHAT CAFE, Tennoz, Tokyo
Hideki IINUMA / Rei ITAYA / Nami OKADA / Ryosuke KAWAHIRA / Mikako TAKAHASHI / Takaoki TAJIMA / Mika CHIBA / Keitoku TOIZUMI / Takayuki NIWA / Gekko NUMATA / Kunihiko NOHARA / Saori HASEGAWA / Osamu WATANABE
Laissez-faire
2024/07/31 -2024/08/13
Daimaru Umeda Store, 3rd Floor East Event Space, Osaka
Nami OKADA
The eternal moment
2024/07/03 -2024/07/20
gallery UG Tennoz
Nami OKADA/Takaoki TAJOMA/Kunihiko NOHARA
Art Vancouver Contemporary Art Fair 2024
2024/04/11 -2024/04/14
Vancouver Convention Centre East
Shigeo IZUMI/Nami OKADA/Takaoki TAJIMA/Kunihiko NOHARA/ Misako MAEGAKI/Tomoko WADA/Osamu WATANABE
UG [OSAKAN] vol.2
2024/04/03 -2024/04/23
gallery UG Osaka Umeda
Nami OKADA/ Ryosuke KAWAHIRA/ Takaoki TAJIMA/ Keitoku TOIZUMI/ Kunihiko NOHARA/ Hiroya YOSHIKAWA
CONTEMPO × gallery UG : Extended Edition
2024/04/01 -2024/05/05
gallery UG Macau
Nami OKADA/Ryosuke KAWAHIRA/Takaoki TAJIMA/Keotoku TOIZUMI/Kunihiko NOHARA
UG [TOKYOITE] vol.1
2024/03/15 -2024/03/30
gallery UG Tennoz
Nami OKADA/Ryosuke KAWAHIRA/Takaoki TAJIMA/Keitoku TOIZUMI/Kunihiko NOHARA/Hiroya YOSHIKAWA
ART FAIR TOKYO 2024
2024/03/08 -2024/03/10
Tokyo International Forum Hall E / Lobby Gallery Booth No. N046
Junko ASANO/ Takashi ONISHI/ Nami OKADA/ Ryosuke KAWAHIRA/ Takaoki TAJIMA/ Keitoku TOIZUMI/ Takayuki NIWA/ Gekko NUMATA/ Nobuko NUMANO/ Naoki NOMURA/ Kunihiko NOHARA/ Saori HASEGAWA
UG [OSAKAN] vol.1
2024/02/21 -2024/03/12
gallery UG Osaka Umeda
Nami OKADARyosuke KAWAHIRATakaoki TAJIMAKeitoku TOIZUMIKunihiko NOHARAHiroya YOSHIKAWA
Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition gallery UG×CONTEMPO
2024/02/01 -2024/03/30
gallery UG Macau
Nami OKADAKunihiko NOHARA
Mother × gallery UG ART Exhibition
2023/10/27 -2023/12/31
Mother New York, 77 10th Street Brooklyn
Nami OKADA
flow of time
2023/10/14 -2023/11/03
GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, Art Wall
Nami OKADA
Arts Maebashi 10th Anniversary Exhibition – New Horizon: Vision of the Future
2023/10/14 -2024/02/12
Arts Maebashi and various facilities around downtown Maebashi
Nami OKADAKunihiko NOHARA
artKYOTO 2023
2023/10/06 -2023/10/09
Former Imperial Villa, Nijo Castle
Nami OKADA
VOID
2023/08/04 -2023/08/26
gallery UG Tennoz
Nami OKADA
【N&A Art SITE】 Nami OKADA 「Whiter Shade of Pale」
2023/07/03 -2023/07/29
N&A Art SITE
Junko ASANOTakashi ONISHINami OKADALIN Chia-hung
Laissez-faire Vol.10
2023/04/01 -2023/04/15
gallery UG Tennoz
Nami OKADATakaoki TAJIMAKeitoku TOIZUMIKunihiko NOHARA Sakiko ASAOKA Chihiro NAGASHIMA
D-art,ART 2022 / Daimaru Kyoto
2022/10/12 -2022/10/24
Daimaru Kyoto 1F / 6F
Takashi ONISHINami OKADATakaoki TAJIMAMitsuaki TACHIBANAKunihiko NOHARANaoki NOMURA
D-art,ART 2022 / Daimaru Kobe
2022/10/05 -2022/10/10
Daimaru Kobe 1F Main stage side special venue / 1F CAFFERA
Nami OKADA
reflection
2022/07/01 -2022/07/23
gallery UG Tennoz
Nami OKADATakaoki TAJIMAKunihiko NOHARA
D-art,ART 2022
2022/06/15 -2022/06/20
Daimaru Shinsaibashi / PARCO shinsaibashi
Nami OKADATakaoki TAJIMAKunihiko NOHARA
art stage OSAKA 2022
2022/06/03 -2022/06/06
DOJIMA RIVER FORUM
Nami OKADAKunihiko NOHARA
ART FAIR TOKYO 2022
2022/03/11 -2022/03/13
Tokyo International Forum
Nami OKADATakaoki TAJIMAKeitoku TOIZUMITakayuki NIWAKunihiko NOHARA
Gallery Colection
2022/02/01 -2022/02/28
gallery UG Tennoz
Junko ASANOHitomi OSHIMANami OKADAMika CHIBATakayuki NIWAGekko NUMATAKunihiko NOHARATomoko WADA
NEXT GENERATION ART KYOTO
2021/11/03 -2021/11/08
Daimaru Kyoto
Nami OKADAMika CHIBAKunihiko NOHARA
VOLTA BASEL 2021
2021/09/20 -2021/09/26
Switzerland
Nami OKADA
dimensions
2021/07/23 -2021/08/08
gallery UG Tennoz
Junko ASANOShigeo IZUMITakashi ONISHINami OKADARyosuke KAWAHIRAMikako TAKAHASHITakaoki TAJIMAMika CHIBATakayuki NIWAGekko NUMATANobuko NUMANOYoshikazu HIRAMATSUMisako MAEGAKITomoko WADAI Chao Wang Hiroko ICHITSUKA Kana UCHIDA Yurika ISHIYAMA Kao MORIMOTO
Lassez-faire
2020/11/13 -2020/11/28
gallery UG Tennoz
Nami OKADARyosuke KAWAHIRATakaoki TAJIMAMika CHIBATakayuki NIWAGekko NUMATANobuko NUMANOKunihiko NOHARAYoshikazu HIRAMATSUMisako MAEGAKIOsamu WATANABE Yurika ISHIYAMA Hiroko ICHIZUKA Takako YUKI
ART colours Vol.33 Summer Exhibition
2020/07/01 -2020/09/21
Park Hotel Tokyo
Junko ASANONami OKADAMikako TAKAHASHITakaoki TAJIMAMika CHIBATakayuki NIWAGekko NUMATANobuko NUMANOKunihiko NOHARAYoshikazu HIRAMATSUMisako MAEGAKITomoko WADA
“Spring Breeze -spring has come- ” ART colours Vol.32 Spring Exhibition
2020/03/24 -2020/06/30
Park Hotel Tokyo
Nami OKADATakaoki TAJIMAKunihiko NOHARA
VOLTA New York
2020/03/04 -2020/03/08
Metropolitan West, NY
Nami OKADA
FACING EACH OTHER
2020/02/10 -2020/02/15
gallery UG Bakurocho
Junko ASANONami OKADARyosuke KAWAHIRAMikako TAKAHASHITakaoki TAJIMAMika CHIBATakayuki NIWANobuko NUMANOKunihiko NOHARAMisako MAEGAKITomoko WADA Yurika ISHIYAMA Hiroko ICHITSUKA Kako MORIMOTO
ONE ART TAIPEI 2020
2020/01/17 -2020/01/19
The Sherwood Taipei
Junko ASANONami OKADAKunihiko NOHARATomoko WADA Hiroko ICHITSUKA Yasuhito KAWASAKI
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2019
2019/09/06 -2019/09/08
Hotel Okura Fukuoka, Fukuoka
Nami OKADARyosuke KAWAHIRAMika CHIBA Filipa Tojal Yukie OSA Kimi SAKAKI Kazuma TAKAHASHI Rin TAMO Sakiko MARUYAMA Kako MORIMOTO
KONSHIN-TEN
2019/07/08 -2019/07/14
gallery UG Bakurocho
