Tai Ogawa

Ogawa's recent practice focuses on creating three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane. Inspired by both analog and digital processes, Ogawa’s works blend abstraction and figuration, reality and fiction, originality and reproductions, constantly defying codified expectations of cultural motifs and their perceptions. His works borrow conventions from sources as diverse as manga, games, sci-fi – which he was immersed in during childhood - to Japanese gangster movies, talks show personalities, and Buddhist iconography, reflecting the fragmentation characteristic of contemporary experience.