CT-SV-CH-1001 / COTOH×SEVESKIG Collaboration S/SL Tee

SEVESKIG presents a collaboration T-shirt with COTOH, exclusively available at the 【SHIFT】Art Festival.

COTOH created a new visual specifically for this event. This is a special item available only for this occasion.

COTOH  | Contemporary Artist 

COTOH's creative work begins by blurring the boundaries between illustration and contemporary art, or commercialism and artistry. While her past endeavors utilized replication techniques and digital methods, her current work returns to "hand-drawing," imprinted with human physicality. This is not merely a choice of technique, but a process of redefining "humanity," encompassing imperfection, as a reality of the post-human era. 

The depicted figures are not specific individuals, but "third entities" standing between reality and fiction. As "simulacra" without an original form, they absorb the gaze and desires from social media, acquiring a stronger reality (hyperreal) than actual existence. This is also a cyborgian attempt to invalidate the boundaries between body and data, and to dismantle existing human images. 

At the core of this contemplation lies the concept of **"Hyper-Identity."** 

This is akin to the state of "superposition" in quantum mechanics. The figures COTOH depicts exist with infinite possibilities, and only emerge as a single persona through the observer's perception. The self is not something contained within a closed individual, but a "system" that is endlessly generated through differences and relationships with others. 

By vertically delving into the context of Japanese two-dimensional culture, COTOH constructs "beings that demand existence despite not existing." This is nothing less than the presentation of a new conceptual device that updates the form of existence in the post-human age.