Aya Ito×Hsu ChihYu
The myth from the botom of the sea
We believe that everything in the world was born from the sea.
Okinawa is an island surrounded by the sea, Yambaru is a mountain field.
All the living things, the lost events, the truths and untruths, the stories heard from someone else, all were born from the sea, grow up in the mountains, and go back to the sea.
Japan is an island, Taiwan is an island too. We imagine based on the vast ocean, a mythology of our own is born and nurtured.
We created a painting on the wall provided by Yambaru Sake Brewery.
Exhibition hall
Yanbaru Sake Brewery 417 Takazato, Ogimi Village, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa
ARTIST
Aya Ito
Born in Wakayama in 1987, she is a contemporary Japanese artist active both in Japan and abroad. She has won the 2011 Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2011, the Shu Uemura Award, the Yuko Hasegawa Award, and more. Her work is in collections such as the Bigotti Collection, Montblanc Japan, and Hitotsubashi University. She has so far exhibited "Resonance Resonant Art" (Suntory Museum [Mt. Tempo], 2010), "Wakayama and Kansai Artists: Her Real Reality" (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, 2015), etc. In 2017, "AYA ITO & ATSUSHI KAGA IT HAPPENS TO BE" (Pallas Projects/Studios, Ireland), and in 2020, "Lava drop ~ Aya Ito's first collection 'RAPID RABBIT HOLE' publication commemorative exhibition ~" (gallery ON THE HILL, Tokyo).
Hsu ChihYu
Born 1990 in Taipei, Taiwan, he completed his MFA in Sculpture at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2017.
2017 "still moving 2017 : far away/so close"(@KCUA/Japan)
2016 "Modus Operandi" (ENSBA/France)
2016 "fabric, light and dirty"(@ARTZONE/Kyoto) and such exhibitions he participated.
2021 "ARTISTS' FAIR 2021" (Kyoto Culture Museum/Japan)
2019 "6.6" (Ho-Yo Space/Taiwan)
2022 "Flat stones and round pebbles" (shvetams/Japan)
2016 "???Presentation??" (Ho-Yo Space/Taiwan)