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Works from the ongoing Decorator Crab series, alongside individual works, drawings, and paintings. For the exhibitions in which they were shown, see Exhibitions →
Series
Series
Since 2007, Decorator Crab has unfolded across galleries, museums, city streets, and landscapes worldwide. Named after a marine creature that camouflages itself with fragments of its surroundings, the works often remain hidden, revealing themselves only through chance encounters.
Individual Works
Individual Works
This is a 24-hour clock—yet without hands or numbers. Morning, noon, night: the same view shifts into countless scenes. It does not measure time, but proposes a way to perceive its unseen layers.
The goalkeeper, often idle at the match’s edge, seems almost apart from the team. This video lingers on his quiet centimeters of adjustment, revealing tension and unseen labor that asks: is he truly one of them?
Works on Paper and Canvas
Works on Paper and Canvas
Recent drawings include boxers, football goalkeepers, and anthropomorphic cats and rabbits, alongside plan drawings for installations. Each captures impulse, play, and imagined scenes that later unfold in larger works.
These paintings depict companions of Mr. Kobayashi the Pink Cat, characters Iikawa has drawn since 1999. Each canvas is stretched from the actual pink fabric that formed the giant cat at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in 2022. They connect with plan drawings and installations such as Pulling Time, Arrangement, Adjustment, Movement, and Very Heavy Bag.
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