Although she experiments with various mediums, Makiko Furuichi always seems to return to painting, primarily in oil on canvas and watercolor on paper, but also in wall painting, ceramics, video, or textiles. Grimacing faces, small mischievous hands—stealing, tickling, slender, and playful—Makiko Furuichi’s subjects emerge from a tragicomic world infused with a sentiment the Japanese call niyari, akin to a grotesque spirit.
She draws and paints the characters that float in her mind, stemming from her dreams, the imagination of a repressed Mangaka, or the media reality that sometimes obsesses her. These visions surface without warning, simultaneously empathetic and cruel, gentle and terrifying, traversed by the presence of animals and plants. Her painting unfolds in generous and immersive installations specifically designed for the spaces that host her work.
