Makoto Hoshina

MA work

Whispering Hollows 囁く虚無, Makoto Hoshina 2018
Oil on film on silk on gold leaf on board
112cm x 80cm
Slumbering Suffocation「微睡む窒息」 (detail), Makoto Hoshina 2018
oil on canvas
112cm x 142cm
Melting Melancholy 「蕩ける憂鬱」　(detail), Makoto Hoshina 2018
Oil on canvas
51cm x 76cm
Metaphysica「メタピュシカ」 (Detail), Makoto Hoshina 2018
Oil on canvas
126 cm x 180cm

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My work is my image of the other worlds acquired through the amalgamation of my imagination and dreams. I believe that our dreams area a gateway for us seeing the possibilities omitted in our world, therefore, my work focuses on creating a new world within it through the fusion of dreamscape and the realm of imaginary.
But, the "purpose" of my practice is to acquire beauty at a level that cannot exist in this world, so seductive that it sucks the viewer’s soul out.
The purpose of my practice is to create beauty at the level of ghastliness.
In other words, my practice is a reckless struggle of me trying to reach “Perfect” through creation.

Experience
Intern as Exhibition assistant, VIVO media arts, Vancouver, 2015; Intern as Character modeler, FromSoftware, Tokyo, 2014

Exhibitions
Work In Progress Show, RCA Battersea Campus, London, 2017; BFA/BA Graduating Exhibition, UBC Audio art centre, Vancouver, 2016; the Third JADIF Exhibition, Setagaya art museum, Tokyo, 2015