Tabaimo has video installations in hand

Tabaimo is best known for her large-scale immersive video installations that feature digitally animated hand-drawn images inspired by Japanese anime, manga and ukiyo-e woodblock prints. She started her career in 1999 Japanese cuisinewhich created an unsettling sense of fear among wealthy Japanese society. After a series of solo exhibitions at leading institutions such as the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Tabaimo represented Japan at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.

This year marks a turning point in the artist's practice. With Touch an absenceA current collaborative exhibition with three animation directors at Warehouse Terrada in Tokyo, she has re-evaluated her relationship with animation and installation. She moved away from the carefully constructed narratives she had created in the past and turned to a freer, more intuitive form of storytelling.

In the new exhibition, the artist presents several palm-sized video installations that stage chance encounters between objects she has personally collected over the years, fragments from her previous animation works and newly drawn images. “This show is a new challenge for me,” explains Tabaimo. “An exercise different from the usual, perhaps like a novelist writing a short story. What I essentially do won’t change, but how I do it will feel completely different to the viewer.”

• Tabaimo: then Gallery KoyanagiKoyanagi Bldg 9F, 1-7-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, until November 16