Ambra Durante was born in Genoa in 2000. She has lived in Berlin since 2007. In 2020, she published the book Black Box Blues with Wallstein Verlag: a story told through images and text of why we grieve about life and how we keep on living.

Lack of sleep is my eye shadow is the title of Durantes very first solo exhibition. She draws on all kinds of material: canvas, cardboard, paper shopping bags, targets. Ambra Durante uses whatever is at hand to tell her stories, which are both simple and intricate. Her main concern is that the inner life should take on an external form while remaining truthful to its expression; depictions should bear the traces of what is externally and internally menacing. The precise circumscription of her pictorial themes demands extreme concentration—a kind of casual precision that is able to incorporate (alleged) mistakes into the work.

In her works, Asana Fujikawa explores transience, fears, sexuality, and how bodies can be represented. She molds all such concerns into a contemporary expression of human life’s metamorphoses. The ambivalences and complexity associated are incorporated into the design of her ceramics. This is also apparent in the way she handles the material. Incredibly fine and delicate forms, virtually pushing the possibilities of ceramics to the limit, collide with coarser, bulkier articulations. Colorfully glazed elements collide with plain-colored areas, left partly in a rough, untreated state. Cracks, holes, and crevices become formative elements. Beauty and fragility, as well as a sense of the abysmal, come to form a unity.