ARTISTS
Tokyo
CHIE
I'm not good at telling. So, I made the other self.Her name is "FOPPISH GIRL". The girl who is wearing a paper bag.People can be many thing, not see the face. Stupid and shamefull, even cruel things...
I record the memory with her.
1977 Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido Japan
2011 15th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Award
ritmico
We create gimmicks which click-clack and move.
"ritmico" is an art unit produced by Yurika Sunada and Hikari Hirakida.
2008 enter Musashino Art University department of Scenography
2012 receive the incentive award of Final Graduation Project exhibition
graduation from Musashino Art University
artcross project 2012 winter exhibition "Creative snow in GINZA"
2013 group exhibition "SICF14"
group exhibition "The Research Associate Exhibition 2013"
Mami Kawata
When we were children, we believed that there was a ghost in the darkness.
The more we grow, the more we came not to believe in the invisible.
Recently, however, we rediscovered the existence of coelacanth that had
been regarded as an inexisting creature for 65 million years.
Our world is still full of the unknown and the mysterious.
Kyoto Japan
Master of art s in ceramic art
Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan, 2013
ESORA
She aims at the animation production work utilizing the elements of the
cinema with a story,
and the creation of the environment produceing movie that integrates the
space and the video such as projection mapping and digital signage which
offers new attractive information and image for the environment of
existing human life.
Born in Hokkaido Japan in 1986
She graduated Takarazuka University, Tokyo Japan on 2011.
She is working as designer, illustrator on freelance basis.
KAKUMEI Club
Girl talks about sexuality is considered taboo. Yet, young adolescent girls have
curiosity, desire and hardcore interest within them to explore and act upon such
desires. This production is considered a controversial issue since we are not aware
of exactly what these young girls are thinking. Young girls have many desires in
which they want to explore and learn about during the adolescent years. These years
are very sensitive for young girls and with this production we are hoping we can
bring the issue of sexuality in youth and the rollercoaster of emotions these girls
go though.
This production has been in the works since October 31, 2012 by Haruka, Misaki, and Mameko Maeda.
Kazue Iwatsuka
Memory from places, shadows and aftertaste are there to be felt. These are pursued that very moment as elements.
My artwork is inspired by anti-infrastructural spaces to either experience memory/flow of time unique to a place, or to virtually experience déjà vu by oneself.
After studying architecture and art, she became interested in city environment and overhead view of cities, and started studying and researching on soundscapes.
While being engaged in soundscape designing, she wrote “SOUNDING SCAPE” (2005) and introduced her study on paper/installation. Since then, she started expanding her study from soundscapes to the memory (shadow) that places/cities/metropolitans have. She also studies human memory (déjà vu) when making art. She has collaborated with many electroacoustic material production and contemporary dance direction as well.
Her popular solo exhibition includes “The White Playgame – A Feeling of Yearn and Emptiness for White” (StudioGOO, 2013) and “The Texture of Density” (Pepper’s Gallery, 2013) and “Heartbeat” (KOBE biennale 2011)
Arisa Oikawa
My art is much fascinated and influenced by “repetition and ornamentation” which are seen in the following two things: Kakitsubata zu Byobu of Korin Ogata and “ribbon as material for art”.
“The 7 Articles of Ribbon”
1) Ribbon is surprisingly erotic yet has dignity as gifts
2) Ribbon is a symbol of “repetition and continuation”
3) Ribbon is to be cut at a ceremony as a symbol of “beginning”
4) Ribbon is sometimes worn by celebrities and Japanese animated characters to characterize identities, as well as to bring out extra presence.
5) Ribbon, to say the least, has already become “part of the past” in our mass consumer society. It’s cute to use them as accessory, but they are definitely unimportant.
6) Ribbon is to be used “precisely” – one MUST know that its balance could only be brought when everything works JUST RIGHT as ribbon, from the size, the texture, to the shape of it. And one must accept its fate.
7) Ribbon could only be a ribbon when it’s used as a ribbon. It has been and will only be possible when ribbon is used on two-dimensional painting in history of fine art.
1983 Born in Iwate, Japan
2006 exhibitions
Currently resides in Tokyo
Isana Yamada
Tukumogami(artifact spirit);in folk belief,long-lived objects(household objects
living beings,nature,etc)become inhabited by a spirit.I have gone on making works
of artifact spirit.A refrigerator is the digestive organs.An iron is burned.A
pendulum hour meter is the heart.The corporal element of which it is taken in to
modeling.It is not only made to flesh-ize but also from episode about a motif.
1988 born in Kanagawa Japan
2014 power of art(Isetan Shinjuku store/Tokyo
Takuya Yamauchi
Life can be so beautiful.
Peacefully and delicately,I will take that into my camera.
1986 Born in Hokkaido,Japan
2011 Completed graduate programs at Musashino Art University,Photograpy Major
Hiromi Koseki
1983 Born in Japan
solo exhibition
2009 unknown.
2013 Art,Labo,After
By using beeswax, accidental beauty.
By consciousness of the unconscious, to produce a silence more natural.
I want to find the beauty that no one noticed.
Yuka Matsushima
I create off something that “separates myself away from the world”.
What “separates myself away from the world” is “windows” and I recreate what I see through those windows. I see no one there and all I see is an empty sky. So, there exists no world through those windows because what I witness is “my very self” from inside out.
Is it “me” or “the world”?
I want you to see what I see through that “something to separate” in my art.
1991 Born in Tokyo
2014 Graduated from Josibi University of Art and Design, College of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Major
Yasuka Matsumoto
Born in Tokyo,Japan in 1988.
Majored in sculpture at Tama Art University.
Her works put an importance on the materials.
She respects the nature of them and the processes of their spontaneous changes.
Her recent challenges are to reflect the hidden inwardness of their own on her creative works.
Ayaka Nakamura
When your journey starts with only your cheer.
Things like this.
I want to see beyond it.
Education: Musashino Art University, Tokyo JP (BA Fine Art, painting and Printimarking)
Making wood cut and movie.
Yukako Iida
1990 Born in Aichi/Japan
2013 Department of Inter-Media Art, Graduate School of Fine Arts,Tokyo University of Arts,
I believe that having a clear vision and being able to communicate well is a very positive things. However, I feel attracted to those who pay attention to the “unvisibles” and who tries to understand the. There are people who lay flowers and say a prayer at a place where no one is physically there. The fact that the invisibles are treated as it they do not exist is a cold way at thinking and it could be violent something’s. So I would like to scream out to say “ Let me see a ghost” in such reality, like a curious child.
Kihoko Muto
When human walks, we might look like a band of light in the eyes of “plants”. When plants look at the loved ones, everything else will melt down, become squidgy and time and space will be metamorphosed. The world be brought together and zero in on it.
I want to have plants eyes.
And so it is sometimes called landscape painting, sometimes metal scenery as well.
1990 Born in Tokyo
2013 Graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design
LandscapeXV Solo Exhibition "Centrosphere",Pepper's Gallery in Tokyo
Haruka Hiramatsu
I'm from Tokyo, Japan.
It works in various fields focusing on Design, Illust, and Art.
Rika Kitazawa
I feel a strange sense that seem to come to a different worlds , when walking the road at night.
I would like to express such the sense , so I draw pictures.
1985 born in Japan
2009 graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design
2009 Landscape XI〈PART II〉Two Persons Exhibition (Pepper's Gallery)
Artists' Xmas Thumbhole Exhibition (Pepper's Gallery)
2013 Landscape XV〈PART I〉Group Exhibition (Pepper's Gallery)
Park Nahyun
1983.2. Born in Seoul, Korea
2013~ PhD student of Fine Arts(Intermedia Art), Tokyo University of the Arts
‘Mega-Pets’ that show up in my works could be the projection to animal of my desire to be transformed into a being of other characteristics. As a living organism or a creature that hides and presents me as a camouflaged me to express another me, it is an image that has destroyed the border between 'a living organism' and 'a machine,' thereby being merged into one.
2013. Solo-exhibition Pepper’s Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012. Solo-exhibition space 8×8, Ibaraki, Japan
2010. Solo-exhibition Gallery La Mer, Seoul, Korea
