From Friday, August 1 to Saturday, August 9, 2025, GARDE Gallery will host “Overwrite,” a solo exhibition by artist HARUNA SHIKATA.
This exhibition features a series of mixed media works exploring the theme of “overwriting information, emotions, and personal experiences.” SHIKATA attempts to reconstruct memory and thought in a positive light through layered visual expression.
This exhibition, “Overwrite,” presents a series of works born from an approach that emphasizes affirmative “editing” and “reprocessing” of the experiences and memories that accumulate within us. Rather than denying the past, artist HARUNA SHIKATA embraces the idea of constructively reshaping it.
Drawing from her own lived experiences, SHIKATA explores how unchanged, unprocessed information stored in the brain can sometimes trigger negative emotions. Her method involves deliberately “overwriting” these internalized elements by hand, transforming them into something newly meaningful through artistic expression.
The works are composed using a layered process that blends photography, text, illustration, and drawing, combining analog and digital techniques. Materials such as silver leaf, UV inkjet printing, and hand-painted details are applied in multiple stages. This process reveals the visual reconstruction of memory, offering viewers new perspectives and emotional resonance.
The act of “overwrite” proposed in this exhibition is not an erasure of memory or data, but a creative endeavor to inscribe new meaning and value upon them. It invites reflection on the potential for positive self-transformation in contemporary society, where the past becomes a canvas for healing and reinterpretation.
Artist Profile – HARUNA SHIKATA
Born in 1996 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
HARUNA SHIKATA began her artistic career after graduating from Kuwasawa Design School in 2022. Her work centers on the concept of “Overwrite”—the affirmative editing and reprocessing of information, emotions, and personal experiences.
Through mixed media works, she explores the reconstruction of memory and the potential for self-transformation. Using materials tied to her own experiences and emotions—such as photographs, text, and drawings—she applies layered techniques that include silver leaf, UV inkjet printing, and paint, creating pieces that symbolically “overwrite” emotional memory and meaning.
Exhibitions & Awards
June 2025 – Tone, YOD KYOTO
April 2025 – tagboat ART FAIR 2025
April 2025 – ART@FUKUOKA
January 2025 – What You See Underneath, YOD TOKYO
January 2025 – 100 Artists 10 – Jury Award
June 2024 – Solo Exhibition Trajectry, gallery201
December 2023 – WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.32 – Award
November 2023 – Origin of Beauty 2023 – Encouragement Prize
August 2023 – Independent Tokyo 2023 – Tagboat Special Award
Collaborations
June 2024 – Quarter Room
December 2023 – MUSTARD HOTEL SHIMOKITAZAWA
Exhibition Overview: HARUNA SHIKATA Solo Exhibition “Overwrite”
Dates: August 1 (Fri) – August 9 (Sat), 2025
Hours: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Closes at 4:00 PM on the final day)
Venue: GARDE Gallery
NBF ALLIANCE Building 4F, 5-2-1 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Admission: Free
Exhibition Details: https://tinyurl.com/46w4d5yb
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