MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tomoo Gokita, featuring a recent body of work first shown in October 2024 at ICA Milano. Rooted in the visual language of the everyday, these paintings take familiar figures and gestures and subtly distort them.

In this new body of work, the artist took the everyday as a starting point: ordinary gestures, banal settings, and seemingly familiar roles. In works like Doctor and Patient or Ventriloquist, Gokita reimagines these mundane pairings with subtle absurdity, shifting them just enough to feel both recognisable and dreamlike. Even in larger canvases like Amnesia, the subject matter feels suspended, both personal and oddly generic, like a déjà vu with the edges smudged. It’s here, in this register of the ordinary made strange, that Gokita is perhaps most compelling: reminding us that the everyday, too, is filled with illusion.

Opening reception: Thursday, September 11, 6-8:00PM

Gallery address: Shop 03-205A & 205B & 206, Second Floor, Barrack Block, Tai Kwun, Central