Diesel Gallery, Aoyama, Tokyo
Closes August 15
"Glazed Paradise" (www.diesel.co.jp/denimgallery) is dubbed as "frozen hyperrealism," and the exhibition evokes a peculiar chill while keeping you pleasantly amused. The pervasive theme in this not-so-perfect promised land is that of teenagers feeling lost in societies that encourage overindulgence. In front of a computer, a teenage doll with headphones sits with its face buried in the keyboard, perhaps suggesting the limitations of our obsession with the computer screen. Next to a spilled Sapporo beer can, a doll looking like a teenage girl lies on the shoulder of another doll whose upper body has been replaced with a garbage bag stuffed with newspaper articles, compellingly expressing the saturation of consumerism and information overload in society.
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