Azuki Furuya is a Japanese artist currently based in Germany.

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Through layered paper, washi, and mixed media, she explores themes of memory, identity, beauty, and transformation.

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Her works are created through processes of layering, sanding, erasure, and reconstruction. Images emerge, disappear, and reappear across accumulated surfaces, revealing traces of what has been hidden, altered, or left behind. These material processes reflect the ways in which experiences and memories continue to exist, even as they are transformed over time.

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Using female figures as a recurring motif, Furuya examines shifting perceptions of beauty, identity, and presence. Her work is less concerned with fixed meanings than with states of transition, where visibility and concealment, destruction and regeneration, and loss and renewal coexist.

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Recent works further explore cycles of disappearance and regeneration, embracing destruction not as an end, but as a condition for new forms to emerge. Through making, unmaking, and remaking, Furuya reflects on the continuous transformation of existence and the possibility of renewal.