Kokeshisky was born in Kagawa, and currently lives in Tokyo Japan.
After graduating from Tama Art University Department of Design, Kokeshisky moved to the United States and graduated from Pratt Institute (MFA).
After graduating Pratt, she worked as a motion graphic designer in New York.
After returning to Japan in 2005, she started painting while working in the design industry.
In 2016, she shifted her field of career to fine art and held her first solo exhibition.
In recent years, she has been organized her solo exhibition by TODA CORPORATION (Kyobashi, Tokyo) and by Kyoto TSUTAYA BOOKS ( Kyoto).
Statement: Deposition of time
From the beginning of my career as an artist, I have been working on the theme of "overlap." I believe that overlaps can shape the world in every way. My interest in overlapping stems from an experience I had in my childhood. There was a pile of waste materials stacked high in my father's workshop. When I climbed the pile, the rubble spreading to the ground looked like a dress spreading out. While I was drawing the overlap of the rubble and the dress as the theme of my work, I realized that the layers contained an hourglass-like time axis in which the falling sand accumulates at the bottom of the glass. Since then, thinking has evolved from physical overlap to temporal overlap.
Panoramic views generated by map apps such as Google Maps are created by stitching together images taken by 360-degree cameras one at a time to create a seamless landscape. Also, as you move along the road, arrows and blue lines appear, and icons indicating destinations and facilities appear on top of each other.The landscape (Street View) that is the subject of the photograph intersects with the photographer's timeline, causing the seasons to suddenly change, and a morning landscape to be enveloped in a sunset in the next moment. When the image processing cannot keep up, or when the photographs are not joined together properly, distortions appear. In recent years, I have incorporated these distinctive phenomena that occur with Street View into my work to express the overlap of time Time may be something that changes, but to me it seems like an accumulation of the present that cannot be grasped. In addition, the Mind View series, which has been developed from Street View, expresses the transience of time by overlaying different icons on the elements of the background image, so that no matter how bright the present is, the moment the icons are overlaid, it changes into a scene from the past.
the elusive accumulation of the present is piling up as rubble from the past, even at this very moment.
