Yuria Okamura’s drawing practice brings together and reinterprets diverse metaphysical imaginings from across cultures and histories through the utopian language of geometry and diagrammatic aesthetics. Okamura maps and reconfigures geometric forms that reference patterns in nature, esoteric symbolism, alchemical diagrams, religious architecture and decoration, and spiritualist abstract painting.
Okamura also deploys wall drawing to create immersive installations by using architecture and gardens as visual metaphors. Positing the garden as a site of harmony between nature and culture, she draws up garden-like spaces combining geometric and botanical images and enshrines nature within imagined architecture. In this way, her work envisions an open-ended contemplative space where nature and culture, and the physical and metaphysical worlds come together.
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