Kae Takashima

"Generate and disappear, existence and absence, resonance with the human spirit with them. The work expresses their coexistence” (Kae Takashima)

Kae Takashima gives voice to silence, a very powerful form of human communication indeed; there is no louder thing than silence, and there is no more poetic thing. If we talk to a musician, he or she will tell us how crucial pauses are to any piece; well, artist Kae Takashima succeeds perfectly in representing this in what is the extreme opposition of "horror vacui". Here there is no fear of emptiness but courage in representing it. Our artist explains how silence would be highly communicative. Rich in information, prodigal in personal meaning. Something that conveys deep aspects of a person, which probably even words could not express. In describing her works, Kae states, "I think the poetics are strongly extracted from other societies. I express this invisible interaction. These works express the memory of the sea as a mental landscape, and express the existence of human poetry responding to it. Generating and disappearing, existence and absence, resonance with the human spirit with them. The work expresses their coexistence."