Yuka Doutou - item #2

Contemporary Silkscreen

A fabulous print by Yuka Doutou: Item #2. Playful creatures, boxes, and everyday objects scatter across the paper; faces, cats, and tiny items emerge and vanish within Doutou’s field of sketchbook & imagination. The silkscreen bursts into a crowd of miniature stories and animated figures. Doutou’s silkscreen layering transforms notebook sketches into a shifting tapestry of items, toys, and characters that come alive with every glance. ✨🐾

• Year & Edition: 2016 · Ed. 1/2 (signed, titled & editioned in pencil).
  
• Medium: Silkscreen.
  
• Dimensions: Sheet H: 80.25 cm × W: 99.25 cm.
• Condition: Direct from artist studio.
  
• Notes: From Doutou’s early Item series, where she transforms notebook fragments into complex silkscreen compositions. Item #2 is an especially rare edition, limited to just two impressions. A large interior design piece.

About the Artist

道藤由加 Yuka Doutou (b. 1983, Hyōgo) builds exuberant silkscreen prints that shift with every glance. From afar, her candy-bright surfaces appear carefree and textile-like; up close, they burst into crowds of animated characters - playful, chaotic, and full of mischief. Balancing light-hearted colour with an undertone of unease, Doutou captures what she calls “Carefree Moment, Bad Premonition” (呑気な時間、嫌な予感). Winner of the Jury Prize at the Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, Doutou's contemporary works are a marvel to behold. [ ← View All Works by Yuka Doutou]