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Usio

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    Beyond the sea

    "Interwoven Currents, Flowing Lines” is the latest in a series of ‘stories about people crossing the sea’ that Ushio has been working on in recent years.
    Fingerprints, which are an accumulation of thin lines appearing on the fingertips, can identify and specify individuals, as seen in the authentication function of smartphones.
    Fingerprints were once recorded in passports required for travel outside of the country.
    (Fingerprints may still be examined during immigration procedures.)
    Every journey of human migration carries its own tale.
    What is brought about by the constant “flow” of people and “waves” of migration that take place via the sea (and sometimes the sky)...
    It is a society of senders and acceptors.
    Have you ever lived in different places beyond the sea from the place where you were born and raised?

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    大宜味村立旧塩屋小学校
    Ogimi Village Former Shioya Elementary School 538 Shioya, Ogimi Village, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa
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    Usio

    photo:日岐百合子

    Usio

    PROFILE

    Born in Yamagata Prefecture and currently resides in Okinawa.
    Graduated from the Graduate School of Art, University of Tsukuba with a major in design in 2003. Using a variety of subjects and techniques, she visualizes “situations that are not as they one envisions them. In recent years, she has been working on a series of works that follow the stories of people's travel to the sea in the modern and contemporary periods.
    Her major solo exhibitions include ""Medium and Dimension: Maze"" (Gasbon Metabolism, Yamanashi, 2024), ""Hand Washing Chanpuru?? ""(GALLERY9.5 NAHA, Okinawa, 2022) and “Beyond the sea”(miyagiya, Okinawa, 2025).

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    【Guest Curator】Megumi Machida

    【Guest Curator】Megumi Machida

    PROFILE

    Born in Naha City and resides there. Based in Okinawa, she is active in planning exhibitions in and out of the prefecture, and in writing.
    Planned “A Scene / A Place” (Hentona Shopping Street) at Yambaru Art Festival 2021-2022, and “A Place” (Hentona Shopping Street venue) and “A Person” (Ogimi Village Former Shioya Elementary School) at Yanbaru Art Festival 2022-2023.