Yutaka Shimomura



1999 Born in Shiga Prefecture
2022 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Oil Painting
2024 completed Master’s degree in Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts

The《Re-touch》series was born out of a fetish for characters seen through digital devices such as touchscreens and VR goggles.The 《Re-touch》 series reveals a desire to touch and have a reciprocal relationship with characters that exist ‘beyond’ digital devices and networks.The superimposition of images of characters that are impossible to ‘touch’ and the surfaces of paintings that are physically destroyed by touch are traces of a desire (violence) for the other side of digital devices that we humans are still unable to control and repeatedly unleash.