Roppongi Crossing 2025 Workshop: Shoji Asami: My Body, the Painting’s Body. Now, Shall We Continue Painting?
Roppongi Crossing 2025 Related Program
Conducted in Japanese
In this workshop, you will use your own body to consider how painters create pictorial spaces, why they stop painting at certain points, and what a completed work is like.
Through Ms. Shoji’s talk and physical experience, this workshop will allow you to experience the relationship between seeing and drawing, by drawing a continuation of the painting image you’ve brought with you.
Message from the Artist
To me, a painting is something that is created through the reflection of my own body; the painting itself can be considered another body. If you have ever experienced immersion in a painting, perhaps you also have perceived the painting as “another body” as a viewer. Just as a painter paints with a brush, seeing is also painting with the eyes. Following the strokes with your eyes, checking the harmony of colors, exploring the relationships between motifs...
Once you have immersed yourself in a painting, it’s time to move from viewer to painter. When is a painting complete, and why can we say it’s finished? Furthermore, thinking about how we view a painting is connected to thinking about how we perceive the world around us. I’d like to explore this together as we move our bodies.
Shoji Asami
- Appearing
- Shoji Asami (Roppongi Crossing 2025 exhibition-featured artist)
- For
- Elementary school students through adults
Parents and their children welcome (recommended for elementary school students in the middle grades and above) - Booking Period
- Friday, January 9, 2026 - Thursday, January 29, 2026
- Date & Time
- 13:00-16:30, Saturday, February 7, 2026 (Doors open: 12:45)
- Schedule
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- 12:45
- Registration Opens
- 13:00
- Talk on Paintings Related to the Body
Exercise
Let’s Imagine the Painter’s Body
Practice: Let’s Continue Painting - 16:30
- End
- What to Bring
- Please bring a print or color copy of a painting that intrigues you, which you may particularly like or dislike, or you may find difficult to understand. Please ensure it is as close to the original size as possible. During the workshop, you will work on drawing based on the image of that painting.
Shoji Asami
Born 1988 in Fukushima and now based in Tokyo. Shoji grew up in Osaka, Aomori, and Tokyo. Using images that originate with the body as a starting point, she describes the world using the language of painting, utilizing canvas and window glass as mediums. Her major solo exhibitions include Nutrition, for Ghosts (LC Queisser, Tbilisi, 2025) and Flower Moments (LINSEED, Shanghai, 2025), and group exhibitions include Roppongi Crossing 2025: Time Passes, We Are Eternal (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2025) and MOT Annual 2024: Island of Koufuku (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2024), and publications include From Tbilisi with Love (2025, oar press).
Notes on Bookings
- Please note that content of the program is subject to change without prior notice.
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