With bold materiality and emotionally charged visual languages, both artists trace the disruptions and contradictions of contemporary identity through form, texture, and cultural memory.
In Electric Disorder, artists Kazuhito Kawai and Jiajia Wang channel disruption—emotional, generational, and aesthetic—as a powerful creative force. Their distinct visual languages speak to the fractures and transformations of modern life, using material and image to explore fragility, identity, and personal mythology.
Kazuhito Kawai creates explosive ceramic sculptures that burst with energy, color, and texture. His vibrant, amorphous vessels—often recalling lava flows or mutated relics—embody a sense of youth in flux, charged with insecurity and wonder. A member of Japan’s "lost generation," Kawai’s works echo emotional volatility and generational precarity. Yet beneath the chaos is a deliberate search for order, intimacy, and connection through clay—a medium he describes as a direct conduit to the inner self.
In contrast, Jiajia Wang’s new body of work turns away from digital collage and toward the slow precision of line drawing, inspired by traditional Chinese Shan shui landscape painting. His pieces blend the influence of video games, memes, music, and cinema with lyrical, mysterious scenes rendered in striking chromatic contrasts. Through a subtle tension between abstraction and narrative, Wang’s works unravel emotional states and psychological space with both immediacy and poetic restraint.
Together, Kawai and Wang offer parallel yet intersecting visions: one eruptive, one contemplative; one sculpted, one drawn. Both artists reinterpret inherited forms—ceramic traditions and classical Chinese painting—through their personal and generational lenses. Electric Disorder is an invitation to embrace dissonance as a creative catalyst, and to navigate the strange, beautiful charge between past and present, personal and cultural.
