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Studio Kura Resident Artist Exhibitions – November 2018

START: Nov 13, 2018 END: Nov 25, 2018

Well-known Itoshima artist-run gallery, studio and residency programme Studio Kura will host an exhibition featuring the work of eight international artists currently working at the space. The artists come from Taiwan, Chile, Philippines, Australia, United States, and New Zealand.

Exhibition by Yang Yu Pei
• 11/13 (Tue.) ~ 11/19 (Mon.)
• 11:00~17:00
• 11/18: Artist talk 15:30~

Other seven exhibitions
• 11/23 (Fri.) ~ 11/25 (Sun.)
• 11:00~17:00
• 11/23: Artist talk 13:30~
• Free
• Studio Kura
586 Nijo-masue, Itoshima City, Fukuoka
https://studiokura.info/en/

The following outlines the eight artists and their work.

Yang Yu Pei, Taiwan: “Current”

Exhibition style: Installation
Based in Taiwan, Yang Yu Pei is an artist specializing in oil paintings, mixed media, interior design, handcrafted products and construction. In 2017, his piece for the East Coast Land Art Festival in Taiwan kickstarted his series of installation art, “water script.” He takes this same direction during his stay at Studio Kura, combining materials he finds along the coast of Taiwan and Kyushu with epoxy, fiberglass and steel to create a new addition to his “water script” series.

Ana Fernández, Chile: “Patrones de movimento (Moving patterns)”

Exhibition style: Animated video installation
Ana Fernández is a multidisciplinary artist from Chile who focuses on filmmaking, film studies, photography, and 2D animation. Using video and animation as in-betweens for perceiving and registering the outside world, Ana aims to create a mixed media audiovisual project with the concept of landmarks and translation while incorporating the images and materials she finds around Studio Kura.

Ho Chia-Lien, Taiwan: “Life cycle and painting record”

Exhibition style: New media and Watercolor
Ho Chia-Lien is an artist based in Taitung, using watercolor as a medium to create and record visual experiences. Aside from painting, he aims to show the state of abandonment in a life cycle by using hair and plants during his stay at Studio Kura, drawing inspiration from the idea of reshaping a new life by cutting the past.

Anna Zoladz, United States: “Terra Incognita”

Exhibition style: Drawing
An artist and game designer based in Alabama, Anna Zoladz uses methods inspired by mechanical drawing in her works, seeking to delineate the invisible order that exists within entropic systems. During her residency at Studio Kura, she aims to re-contextualize the rich organic forms seen in the local landscape of Itoshima while being inspired by the symbolism and mythology that are associated with it.

Mariel Ypil, Philippines: “Beneath Mountains & Skies”

Exhibition style: Visual Arts
An illustrator and creative writer from the Philippines, Mariel Ypil draws inspiration from nature, mystery and folklore. Surrounded by Itoshima’s flora, fauna and culture, as well as the calm tranquility that surrounds it, she hopes to create whimsical characters whose stories tell so much about the beauty of nature during her residency at Studio Kura.

James Wylie, New Zealand: “ぐるぐる, アップアップ (round and round, up and up)”

Exhibition style: Video
Coming from New Zealand, video artist James Wylie aims to create a series of videos that juxtapose real footage into 3D digital worlds as he explores the rural areas of Itoshima. James draws inspiration from the term satoyama (里山) which means an area between wilderness and arable farmland, an attempt at the symbiosis between humans and nature.

Carly Snoswell, Australia: Open Studio

Work style: Textile
Carly Snoswell is an artist based in Adelaide whose work attempts to explore fandom and the creation of craft objects as an ode to particular pop-culture phenomenon through gendered and laborious forms of craft-making. She aims to explore the traditional Japanese methods of textile during her stay at Studio Kura as well as exploring the fandom culture of Japanese cosplay and pop culture phenomenon.

Elysha Rei, Australia: “Nanakorobi Yaoki 七転び八起き- Fall down seven times, stand up eight”

Exhibition style: hand cut paper (kirigami)
Drawing inspiration from her mixed heritage and experiences, Japanese-Australian visual artist Elysha Rei creates portraits, patterns and paper cutting works with a Japanese design aesthetic. During her stay at Studio Kura, she will create patterns found in the armor of her Japanese Samurai ancestor, Katagiri Katsumoto and pay homage to her recent battle with breast cancer.

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Published: Nov 16, 2018 / Last Updated: Nov 17, 2018

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