Keiko Ahner

Art has the ability to create new worlds and new universes that often, are incompatible with our everyday seeing and feeling. Sometimes, the worlds it creates are so fleeting and and ethereal that they are likened to pure clusters of energy swirling within space. There is no longer low and high or even the horizon line. There are not even human beings and all elements traceable to the world of reality. Matter becomes air, particles accumulate forming clusters but their bonds are tenuous, weak, gaseous. At other times, the reality represented is ascribable to what we see and yet, there are elements of novelty, subjects we have never seen in our daily lives that take over becoming the protagonists of entire cycles of works The representational possibilities of art are thus infinite and inevitably and unequivocally reflect the creative spark that stirs the artist's entire soul. Keiko Ahner organizes her artistic production between labile atmospheres and unusual subjects, between colors that blend together and black lines that concretely demarcate the contours of figures. On the one hand, there is the pure expressive energy, conveyed in the form of pigment that stands out on the canvas with chromatic and compositional mastery; on the other hand, the realization of episodes starring Wasshoi aliens, beings so dear to the artist, repeatedly represented and paid homage during her artistic work. In "Happy Birthday, Wasshoi Alien," a depiction characterized by pinkish and bluish tones welcomes within it the representation of a birthday, and the protagonists are precisely our alien friends. Aliens in humanoid form who, like us humans celebrate birthdays by carrying gifts and offerings in their hands to the birthday boy. They are similar to us but so profoundly different. Human beings are by nature prone to despondency, to passive living through life events, to blaming fate for mourning and great disasters that have marked their existence Wasshoi aliens do not contemplate these emotions Or rather, they understand them and take on our problems, but inside them, inside those humanoid-shaped little white bodies shines the hope and desire for a bright future.