Future Fair

GOCA by Garde will present two Japanese artists, Aya Kawato and Yuta Okuda, who represent a new generation of Japanese artists poised to shape the future of contemporary art through the lens of Neo-Japonisme. Rooted in Japonisme, the19th-century European fascination with Japanese aesthetics, this contemporary evolution speaks to a cyclical cultural exchange: where Japanese art once inspired the West, its echoes returned through postwar American culture, only to be reinterpreted anew within Japan’s evolving cultural landscape. Neo-Japonisme is not a revival, but a dynamic reassembly. Filtered through the hybridized, hypermodern sensibilities of artists who traverse time, tradition, and technology, it becomes a living dialogue. The works on view reflect this next phase: layered expressions where Japanese heritage, Western contemporary practices, and deeply personal vision converge into a new visual and conceptual language.

It's an honor to introduce this emerging cultural movement at Future Fair, New York,an international crossroads where such artistic convergences find their sharpest resonance. Through deconstructing and reconstructing tradition, these artists are charting bold, new pathways for Japanese art on the global stage.The theme of this presentation is "a new impulse." Within the minds of these artists, Japan’s ancestral traditions collide with the complexities of global contemporary life. From this frictione merges a fresh quality, a distinct, embodied aesthetic sensation,pulsing outward into the world.