Hana Usui

Hana Usui was born in Tokyo in 1974 and studied art history at Waseda University and Japanese calligraphy.

Her drawings are made of black or white oil paint, which she carves into paper with a screwdriver and often embeds into ink washes.

[1] "The works of the Japanese artist Hana Usui, who was born in Tokyo in 1974, are, however restrained, of great complexity.

Those on the history of her own country, on Fukushima or Hiroshima, give the subject a new dimension by avoiding anything striking or the purely documentary and are never to be seen as a political manifesto.

Thanks to this distancing and mere suggestion and the symbolic in the artistic media, they gain, one might say, in quiet intensity and at the same time remain open to questions.