Soka Art is pleased to announce that the duo exhibition Parallel Paradise by artists IIDA Kiriko and KAWAI Haruko will be held on March 2, 2024 to March 31, 2024 at Soka Art Beijing. The exhibition will present almost forty works created by both artists in past ten years, the naive creative language in the images and the good weather preserved in childhood memories take the audience back to the initial pure beauty of life.

Parallel Paradise is the artist's spiritual habitat hidden under the picture by abandoning the rules of the real world. If the process of painting is the artist's utopia, the world in the painting is the viewer's entrance to the ideal country, following the sweetest part of childhood memories, the pure fantasy that exists above the objective facts.

IIDA Kiriko was born in Hokkaido in 1970, and graduated from Hokkaido Institute of Design. The field of IIDA's works is as serene and pure as her hometown. From the Edo period when it was known as "Ezo Land" to the Meiji period when it was renamed Hokkaido, the Ainu people, who have long inhabited this vast land, believe in the Animistic Faith, and that the world is made up of a myriad of floating worlds, each of which is a fragment of another floating world in which everything passes and grows. They also believe that the world is made up of a myriad of floating worlds, and that each dream is a fragment of a person's experience in another floating world, in which everything passes away and grows. IIDA's works are like a secret discovered by accident, a fantasy world that is real but deliberately hidden. The innocent face staring out of the frame, the tips of its eyelashes flickering simultaneously with sadness and hope, breaks the "fourth wall" between it and the viewer. The elusive subtlety of the young man's emotions is restrained, the with a silence that is accompanied by a faint shade of cloudiness. IIDA's work suggests an esoteric beauty as profound as the atmosphere created by Soviet poet Boris Pasternak in Initial Cold, “And the stars secretly speculate what wondrous things are done in the winter at the remote villa, as it is seen in the heavens.”

KAWAI Haruko was born in Nagoya in 1968, and graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, now she works and lives in Nagoya. The content of her creations is always saturated with the initial curiosity and exploration of life experience and the initial perception of the world. Colorful wilderness, cotton candy-flavored clouds, and mountains made of orange peels are the fantasy consensus of people's childhood innocence. By establishing a vacuum and a utopia isolated from the reality of pollution, KAWAI makes individuals reflect on the suffering of the disadvantaged groups in the modern society, wars, and the damage of human beings to nature. She hopes to use the initial beautiful experience of life to evoke sympathy and reverence. The soft images she offers are similar to Matisse's "comfort chair theory," which states that art is like a comfortable comfort chair that soothes the soul. KAWAI's way of maintaining her childishness is to be in touch with nature, enjoying the different landscapes and messages from nature with all five senses, such as tasting the wild vegetables sprouting in spring. Her work is like a storybook that people treasured as children and never got tired of reading, or a self-portrait of the first time they picked up a crayon and drew a picture. KAWAI hopes that people will remember this feeling, imperfect as it is, as the starting point for trying to build something beautiful. Following a path through a field back to a carefree afternoon of play, finding the perfect hide-and-seek spot is both satisfying and exciting, and the mixture of grass and sunshine fills the gaps in our thoughts. KAWAI helped us realize the fantasy of returning to the glowing afternoons of our childhood.

Everyone has his or her own space of consciousness, and when individuals are confronted with a term presented in a work, they will unconsciously walk along the term into the artist's space of consciousness, and even though the individual's space of consciousness may be chaotic, blindly obedient, and vaguely indeterminate, each individual consciousness will produce their own interpretation of the author's presentation of the symbolic reconstruction. Parallel Paradise is like French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, which can be read by children and adults alike with different feelings, as if it were a mirror reflecting different images to different people.