YAMBARU ART FESTIVAL
2023-2024

ART PROGRAM

Tail marks (rat, fox, raccoon)

Pencil drawings made between the ages of four and five, from 1983 to 1984, on a drawing book.
These are drawings of bare desire, drawn with a child's eye, observing things around me, human society, television, and the times.
By staring at these drawings with the calm eyes of my present self, and enlarging and copying them, including misperceptions, mishearing, and misremembering, I hope to create an installation that jumps over, cuts through, and ruins various things, including children and adults, people and food, past and present, graffiti and paintings, distant places and times, and so on. I am thinking of creating an installation that jumps over, cuts through, and ruins various things.
We think it would be very interesting to create it on site in a classroom of an abandoned seaside elementary school that is no longer in use and is probably full of memories of the children of Yanbaru.

PROFILE

©Kayo Ume

Chihiro Mori

PROFILE

Incorporating fragments picked up through observation of the city from his unique perspective, he uses various techniques, including painting, drawing, sculpture, animation, photography, and installation. His works are anarchic and humanistic, with the coexistence of disquiet and beauty, raw cruelty and fun. His major solo exhibitions include "omoide in my head" (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2017) and others. In 2007, he was selected as one of the artists to create the "Tokyo 2020 Official Art Poster."