Photo：Keizo Kioku
An installation using farm equipment. Tiny pieces of metal shaped to fill the cracks and crevices of old farm tools and decaying farm equipment represent the landscape of a town that once flourished as a port of call for the Kitame-bune (cargo ships). These gradually changing metal shapes accumulate as the town’s history is superimposed on it, creating a new landscape that we have yet to encounter.
Born in Tokyo in 1983.
In 2008, she graduated from Musashino Art University’s Department of Industrial, Interior and Craft Design specializing in metalworks. In 2010 she completed a master's degree in crafts (metal casting) at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School. She currently lives in Tokyo. Major exhibitions include "line" (Art Front Gallery/2020), Aperto 11 "metamorphoses of cities" (Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Long Term Installation Room/2019), Metal Craft Special exhibition (Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum/2018), "3rd Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa” (Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art People’s Gallery A/2017).
2020
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Soilstory (formerly World Dirt Association)〈Japan〉Installation artwork with video anditems collected in the “Great Clearance” based on traditional farming “Aenokoto” (banquet ritual) with local residents’ “soil memories.”
Yuki Okawa〈Japan〉
Using old kiriko and ropes made by braiding torn pieces of used clothing,
the artist created a plush forest-like space teeming with memories.
OBI〈Japan〉
By meticulously arranging a collection of countless utensils in a space reminiscent of a deep storehouse, this installation gives you a taste of Okunoto’s rich history and food culture.
Yoshitaka Nanjo〈Japan〉
Images projected onto a wooden boat and an old piano arranged on a layer of sand
dug up from Suzu’s ancient stratum —the afterglow of memories associated with land
and possessions bubbles up to the surface.
Saori Miyake〈Japan〉
This projected image installation was created by arranging old boat parts in a space superimposed by photographs and photograms of boats from the past and present.
Ayako Kuno〈Japan〉
Chips and cracks of battered old farming equipment enhanced with delicately sculpted metal objects evoke Suzu’s agricultural landscape that extended over many generations.
Masaya Hashimoto〈Japan〉
Clay collected from former roof tile factories and bones from whales that link together memories of the primeval sea invite you to recall Suzu’s pristine landscape that prevails today along with its history.
Photo：Keizo Kioku
