DAZED「Art Collaboration Kyoto: 8 rising artists for your radar」

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There’s something deeply satisfying about the tactile quality of Nanae Mitobe’s work, so much so that it’s difficult to resist the temptation to reach out and touch it. Based between Vienna and Japan, the painter uses thick, crunchy brush strokes and incorporates sculptural elements – a clarinet, for example – which protrude from the canvas. I love the way she paints faces, which are almost abstract in their reduction to the barest essentials. Her work is often engaged in political satire, but even when she’s poking fun at her subjects – Donald Trump probably wouldn’t be flattered by her recent portrait series – they are oddly adorable.