Electric Disorder
Kazuhito Kawai, Jiajia Wang
Andrea Festa Fine Art is pleased to present Electric Disorder, a two-person exhibition featuring Kazuhito Kawai and Jiajia Wang, on view from May 18 to June 18, 2024. The exhibition explores visual strategies of dissonance, emotion, and transformation—reflecting how cultural and personal identities mutate in times of flux.
Born in Japan in 1984, Kazuhito Kawai studied contemporary art at Chelsea College of Art before discovering ceramics, which became a visceral and transformative medium for his practice. His textured, lava-like ceramic forms evoke states of instability and vulnerability—often referencing adolescence and the emotional chaos of his generation. Glazed in bright, artificial colors, the works conceal and reveal their fragility, operating as sculptural memoirs of uncertainty and growth.
Jiajia Wang (Beijing, 1985) brings a radically different yet complementary approach. Influenced by digital culture and classical Chinese aesthetics, Wang’s new drawings move away from collage and into the refined language of line and brush. Drawing from Shan shui traditions while embracing the language of video games, anime, and visual irony, his compositions create hybrid landscapes filled with ambiguity, emotion, and introspection. His works operate as coded meditations on longing, loss, and identity.
Curated to highlight contrast and resonance, Electric Disorder reveals how inherited forms—ceramics and ink painting—can become tools for contemporary resistance and reinvention. Both artists blur the lines between craft and fine art, memory and imagination, restraint and excess.
