Right now Minako Nishiyama is presenting her work at 3331 Arts Syd. We sat down with the artist in the exhibition space and talked about her artistic practice. The exhibition includes a new installation consisting of photos from Akihabara, an area located not far from 3331 Arts Syd, that has close connotations with Japanese concepts like otaku and maiden cafes. This work impelled Nishiyama to include some of her earlier works in the exhibition. The geographical proximity to Akihabara gave rise to an artistic connection between her present work and parts of her oeuvre from the middle of the 1990s. During that period Nishiyama made works that in different ways dealt with the close visual resemblance between aesthetic expression directed to young girls and the kind of visual images that were used in the Japanese sex industry. Her present works shows a more subtle and architectural expression but clearly makes the viewer aware of that the desire for kawaii is not changing.
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