Emmy Asakura (° 1962) is a Belgian artist with Japanese roots who currently lives and works in Antwerp. She paints WITH oil- whether or not in combination with photographs, Japanese washi paper - on canvas or panel of different sizes, but she also makes installations.
 

Asakura's paintings balance between figuration and lyrical abstraction and are the result of a physically intense painter's act. Her visual work has a strong autobiographical slant and was influenced by different cultures and long stays abroad. For example, she investigates specific concepts such as the Maria figure, physical identity and femininity.

Asakura explores specific figurative themes that she shapes and further edits, as well as reworks and let live through later works. Even in her apparently abstract expressionist works, there are always traces of figuration.
 

Emmy Asakura constructs and deconstructs, paints and scratches, pastes and paints, removes and adds ... an unpredictable energetic process of endless rearrangement. 

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