from Journeys and from Home

an exhibition of selected orihon sketchbooks and paintings by Davisi Boontharm

21 - 26 February 2025 at Shinkenchiku-sha Aoyama House, 2-19-14, Minami Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo

12:00-20:00 closed on Monday.

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For over a decade, Davisi has been sketching and painting in orihon format sketchbooks. Beginning with a basic carnet de voyage, she has cultivated her passion for this format and conducted numerous experiments on different themes. Her subjects include everyday life and specific memories tied to places. She has captured street scenes and façades from places where she lives and the places of which she has a fond memory. Her sketches not only depict reality, but also encapsulate the atmosphere - and something beyond it. Her sketchbooks are like an autobiography that visually narrates her journeys, her home and her life.

In this exhibition at Shinkenchiku-sha, alongside the chosen orihon sketchbook, there is also a showcase of Davisi’s latest artwork featuring kokeshi, the traditional Japanese wooden dolls from her collection. These pieces aim to elicit feelings from an ordinary object. Striving for depth with simplicity, she repurposes old papers, paints them over as palimpsest with a limited color scheme.