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. After their use and function, and released from one’s possession or system, objects are abstracted and left anonymous with a sense of lost-identity.
These objects are arranged in ensembles through balancing its physicality, where the pure form, color, and materiality take over the original use value. They meet at a tangent point, unsuspended by neither being glued nor nailed; they are more likely just ‘being there’ temporally in the space they share, in dialogue with the other objects.
My work explores the sculptural language of a state of ‘pause’, a suspension of both weightlessness and timelessness, with the familiar and identifiable objects’ physicality. This moment of objects ‘in shift’, is pursued through my concentrated and poetic dialogue with the objects.
Processed through my intuitive engagement with objects, places, and repetition (of materials or gestures) in a searchingly and playful way, the haptic sensory and ritualistic nature is inherent. This I believe bridges the nature of both everyday gestures, craftsmanship, and the ancient alchemical process.
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Work of art I would like to make
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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My Artworks (6)
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