The traffic and attention he received is not something the student group's champion can match.
Koizumi Katsuko could indeed participate in the Lion City Art Exhibition this year, and then the Yokohama Triennale next year.
But the significance is completely different.
The achievement in the first formal debut of your career represents the first anchor point and positioning that you establish in the hearts of galleries and collectors.
The higher the starting point, the smoother the entire career tends to be.
Koizumi Katsuko has been winning various young artist awards since she was small, gaining them so effortlessly that her future is already promising, and she doesn't need a student group's competition record to prove herself.
She knows,
what she truly needs is to prove to the gallery that she is a mature artist rather than an outstanding child.
"Shengzi, whether you can compete or not, the decision should be in your hands, not mine."
