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KAZUHIRO HORI: Cannot be a Magical Girl: Dorothy Circus Rome | Solo Show

Past exhibition
19 Novembre - 17 Dicembre 2022
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Kazuhiro Hori, Unfulfilled Dream, 2022
Kazuhiro Hori, Unfulfilled Dream, 2022

Kazuhiro Hori Japanese, 1969

Unfulfilled Dream, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
Artwork Size: 51 x 36 cm, 20.1 x 14.2 in
Framed Size: 53.5 x 38.5, 21 x 15.1 in
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Kazuhiro Hori, Waver, 2022
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Kazuhiro Hori, Waver, 2022
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In Unfulfilled Hope (2022), Japanese artist Kazuhiro Hori constructs a surreal tableau of emotional tension beneath a saccharine surface. Painted in acrylic, the work depicts a girl in a school...
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In Unfulfilled Hope (2022), Japanese artist Kazuhiro Hori constructs a surreal tableau of emotional tension beneath a saccharine surface. Painted in acrylic, the work depicts a girl in a school uniform lying in a cream-like landscape, her expression vacant yet weighted, eyes rimmed with vivid red as if from tears or sleeplessness. The finely rendered textures—strawberries, meringue swirls, and a bright blue bird splayed lifelessly—contrast starkly with her numb stillness, creating a visual friction between innocence and decay.


Set against this sugary, dreamlike terrain, the girl's outstretched hand clutches a pink toy mirror—an object of play now seeming oddly futile, symbolic of introspection or the futility of appearances. Her gaze is distant, suspended in the uncanny space between childhood fantasy and emotional disillusionment. The lifeless bird, rendered with arresting realism, disrupts the confectionary setting with a jarring symbol of loss or unmet desire.


Hori’s work resists linear interpretation, instead conjuring a haunting ambiguity. In Unfulfilled Hope, he explores the contradictions of youth—its sweetness and its sorrow—through meticulous detail and unsettling imagery. The result is a meditation on disillusionment, the quiet implosions of growing up, and the beauty that persists even in the shadow of melancholy.

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