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NEW SENSATIONS: A CHANNEL 4 PRIZE FOR SAATCHI ONLINE 2010 UK GRADUATES

 
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Nobuko Kawata
(32 years old. Born in Japan. Lives in: London)
Chelsea College of Art and Design

From my experience of moving from place to place since childhood, I have been conscious of the things I leave behind and the place I belong to, experiencing my ‘shifting’ state of identity in different environments. The objects I collect are mostly fragmented part of familiar objects that are thrown away from everyday usage: toilet paper roll, tire tube, tea bags, scraps from studios, partition board with holes. A ...[more]
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I am currently exploring the arrangement of objects in relation to the space and its architectural feature, where the framework of my work extends its formal ‘edge’. The condition of objects not being fixed inhere its nature of adjustability in response to the situation and environment that is never the same.

If I could get the opportunity to exhibit for the 4 New Sensations, I would like to pursuit this current practice in the exhibition space. The way and manner of how the objects are assembled I believe would serve to activate the space to be experienced more deeply and sensitively.
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