WINDS OF ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2023 3rd Period : Opening Talk

Period: Feb 23, 2024

Time: 14:00-16:00

Venue: Grand Studio (Meeting Place) and Gallery, Artist Cafe Fukuoka

Visitors are invited to join the opening talk, where the three invited residency artists will take time to share their thoughts and experiences in front of their artworks.

Fee	Admission Free. No Registration required. Meitao Qu’s talk will be given in English with Japanese translation
Lecturer	Meitao Qu [曲美陶] [Residency Period: 10th January – 9th March] Born in 1996, Shenzhen (China), lives and works in London. Qu’s practice engages with how images are constructed and the role they play in shaping discourses of cultural and national identity. Through worldbuilding and storytelling, she works with miniature environments and architectural models to play with the visual economy of the cityscape as a symbol of ‘progress’. Naho Kawabe [Residency Period: 10th January – 9th March] Born in 1976, lives and works in Hamburg (Germany) and Tokyo. Kawabe is an interdisciplinary artist who works on film, installation, objects, drawings, and combinations of these genres. The artist hopes to reveal contemporary social structure through historical and socio-cultural research focused on “coal” while referring to the experiences of individuals. Tomohiro Hanada [Residency Period: 10th January – 9th March] Born in 1986, lives and works in Iizuka. Hanada attempts to reflect and reconstruct invisible things inside the visible through photography. He points out our lack of thoughts caused by mundane routines and tries to shed light on something that is often overlooked in everyday life.
Organiser	Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

Fee

Admission Free. No Registration required.
Meitao Qu’s talk will be given in English with Japanese translation

Lecturer

Meitao Qu [曲美陶] [Residency Period: 10th January – 9th March]
Born in 1996, Shenzhen (China), lives and works in London.
Qu’s practice engages with how images are constructed and the role they play in shaping discourses of cultural and national identity. Through worldbuilding and storytelling, she works with miniature environments and architectural models to play with the visual economy of the cityscape as a symbol of ‘progress’.

Naho Kawabe [Residency Period: 10th January – 9th March]
Born in 1976, lives and works in Hamburg (Germany) and Tokyo.
Kawabe is an interdisciplinary artist who works on film, installation, objects, drawings, and combinations of these genres. The artist hopes to reveal contemporary social structure through historical and socio-cultural research focused on “coal” while referring to the experiences of individuals.

Tomohiro Hanada [Residency Period: 10th January – 9th March]
Born in 1986, lives and works in Iizuka.
Hanada attempts to reflect and reconstruct invisible things inside the visible through photography. He points out our lack of thoughts caused by mundane routines and tries to shed light on something that is often overlooked in everyday life.

Organiser

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum