銀座蔦屋書店GINZAATRIUMにて新作を中心とした清川あさみ個展『TOKYOMONSTER,reloaded』を開催します。
90年代のファッション誌のストリートスナップをモチーフとして、東京を彷徨う人々のコンプレックスや虚栄心の表れを「モンスター」になぞらえて表現した「TOKYOMONSTER」の続編となる「TOKYOMONSTER(2020-)」の新作を発表します。
コロナ禍で社会が大きく変化するなか、未来を探し彷徨う「時代」と「人々」を清川の糸を用いた独自の技法で表現します。
また、平面作品のみならず、本に直接刺繍を施した「わたしたちのおはなし」に続く「TOKYOMONSTERCOVERS」、西陣織作品や版画、アパレルブランドWINDANDSEAとコラボしたロングTシャツなど、さまざまなシリーズや企画が登場。
清川が切り取った現在進行形の「東京」をどうぞご体感ください。

Asami Kiyokawa presents TOKYO MONSTER, reloaded, a solo exhibition featuring mainly new works at the GINZA ATRIUM event space inside Ginza TSUTAYA BOOKS.
In this exhibition, Kiyokawa unveils new works in the TOKYO MONSTER (2020-) series. This is a sequel to her TOKYO MONSTER series, in which she adopted street snaps from fashion magazines of the 1990s as motifs, embellishing them to express the complexes and vanities of people on the streets of Tokyo and to reveal the monsters.
In the TOKYO MONSTER (2020-) series, she uses her distinctive embroidery techniques to express our times and people wandering in search of a future in the midst of the tremendous social changes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to two-dimensional artwork, the exhibition includes a variety of the artist’s series and projects, such as TOKYO MONSTER COVERS, which has embroidery worked directly into the book in a similar manner to her earlier book, Our Story. She also presents Nishijin brocades, block prints, and long-sleeve T-shirts produced in collaboration with apparel brand WIND AND SEA.
All in all, the show is an encounter with Kiyokawa’s snapshot of Tokyo in the present progressive.