Hiroshima Art Center is pleased to present "Strangers in a strange place" a solo exhibition by Ryoko Furukawa.

Furukawa is a young artist based in Hiroshima, working mainly in drawing and other painting media. This exhibition consists mainly of works created as a result of Furukawa's own encounters with folklore.

　Furukawa attempts to trace the function of folklore in reaffirming the distance between the self and the other, and by overlapping it with the relationship between the painting and the viewer in the appreciation of painting, he attempts to make the painting have the effect of reaffirming the viewer's presentness. Looking at others is nothing other than looking at oneself, and we look forward to Furukawa's attempt to capture that gaze itself in the form of a painting.