This time, we visited "Kansai Art Annual 2025 CO" in which seven young artists related to Kansai participate, which is being held at Shinsaibashi PARCO. Kansai is dotted with many galleries with unique and experimental spirit, providing artists with a variety of opportunities for expression. In this exhibition, works by artists selected from each perspective are exhibited in collaboration with the attention gallery around Shinsaibashi PARCO, creating a rich connection between local communities and creativity.

First of all, the two people went around the venue and chose "favorite works" and "works of interest".

ー Wada's work "I liked" Ayaka Miyata

 Wada: At first glance, I saw this work and thought, "I like it!" It was impressive that it was expressed with threads and embroidery, and I felt strange that the thread was stretched sideways and the image was blurred.

• Profile _ Ayaka Miyata
• Born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1985. Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design, Graduate School of Art and Design in 2012. After majoring in dyeing and weaving at university, he began to produce using a unique technique using hand embroidery and sewing machine embroidery to create depth and volume on dyed cloth. He has created a unique method based on "Error: New Values are born due to the act of failure," such as the "WARP" series of thread layers that appear by intentionally causing bugs to the sewing machine, and the "Knots" series, which eliminates the fabric of the supporting body and builds only with thread.

Mr. Wada and Mr. Suenaga "I was worried" works by Kei Okamoto

Wada: I was worried because I like works with good color combinations. Moreover, the color of this work may not be chosen by the artist himself, but may contain coincidences made in machines and photographs. It's interesting to feel that you like that color.

Suenaga: I was also interested in this piece because it was interesting. I like works that I don't know what is being painted.
For example, in this work, I first imagined the image of the sea from color, but it looked like the starry sky of the sea and aurora, and on the contrary, I thought that it looked like a deep sea, and what I saw changed depending on the time I saw it. I felt like I wanted to talk about the image with other people.

• Profile _ Kei Okamoto
• Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1981. Graduated from Osaka University of Arts in 2004. We will continue to produce paintings like optical experiments by making full use of our unique technique "photo brush". Using the properties of <film> and <print paper>, which are photographic materials, instead of using the camera as an expression medium, "light" is colored in a completely dark room. Draw as a form and "record". Replace the development process of photography with "drawing" and present the new charm of photographic materials and the possibility of painting expression.