Gallery Strenger is pleased to present "DessinDessin" by drawings of Ayako David Kawauchi born in Ehime in Japan. It will be twenty-three years by this year and she already spent the half her life overseas. After Kawauchi moved to France, as a textile designer, she worked for famous fashion maker's such as Lidewig Edelkoort, Anne Clert, and Marie Claire Idées. But her dessin worked on her private time came to attract the public notice gradually, and since 2006 she has devoted her life to drawing completely. Her dessin suddenly brought into the limelight at a solo exhibition and the art fairs, "salon de dessin contemporain", and "Slick Dessin09" in recent years in Paris. She is now planning to show her work not only in Europe but Japan. In addition to this sole exhibition with Gallery Strenger, we will be exposing new work of Kawauchi at Emerging Directorʼ s Art Fair "ULTRA002" (October 29 - November 3) and the Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2009 (November 21 - 23) continuously this autumn. The background is completely eliminated from the scene, Kawauchi reveals the dark side, somewhat to be too early from their innocent expressions, which is hid in the body of fresh adolescence. She easily grabs down the physical feature of the model and will also foresee the hidden desire as well. As for the traffic signal (red, blue, and yellow) received from them, Kawauchi is able to depict from the dangerous factors of fear, anger, to the pleasant expressions that children show in every day. When seeing them who are drawn bold and fresh with the powerful charcoal line, we canʼ t help but feel puzzled. 　 * The text provided by Gallery Strenger.