Japanese artist Sayuri Ichida was born in Fukuoka, Japan in 1985, lives and works in Margate, the United Kingdom.
In the series ‘Absentee’ from 2021 that was created during the corona pandemic, she focuses on the temporality of our existence. Centred around her own body, juxtaposed with everyday objects we normally overlook, the boundary between the figure and man-made objects disappears and blends to evoke an ever-changing state of being. This body of work is an evocative depiction of a sense of detachment, an absence, from self and reality.
The series of still lives ‘E3 2JH’, another lockdown project finished in 2021, is a study in constructive form within a limited domestic space. It explores the capacity to control lines and forms employing gravitational tension.