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■Eko Nugroho
［Residency Period: Aug.24-Sep.21, 2024］
Born in 1977 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. From painting, embroidery, sculpture, and video, his work is deeply rooted in local traditions and the urban environment, while interweaving elements of street art, graffiti, and cartooning.
■Mahbub Jokhio
［Residency Period: Jul.12-Sep.21］
Born in 1992 in Mehrabpur, Pakistan, based in Lahore. Through a variety of subjects from the everyday to history, poetics, politics, and climate crisis, Jokhio raises questions on the mechanisms of image production and perception. During his residency in Fukuoka, he works on an installation piece representing many kinds of extinct fish.
■Rega Ayundya Putri
［Residency Jul.8-Sep.30, 2024］
Born in 1988 in Surabaya, Indonesia. With drawing as her focus of medium, the artist creates speculative fiction inspired by current phenomenon and issue. Using discarded electronics with Kappa’s folklore and Fukuoka’s landscape as her inspiration, she plans to make a drawing installation presenting the evolution of human species in the future environment.
■Yasuda Yoh
［Residency Period: Jul.1-Oct.2, 2024］
Born in 1988 in Kanagawa, Japan. Having a strong interest in traditional cultures that are being lost due to contemporary digitalization, Yasuda has been researching Indonesian kite culture and the natural environment of the Pacific Islands since 2019. This research led her to work on the kites as a sustainable artistic expression. In Fukuoka, the artist creates her original “kite” as an installation work, representing a variety of animals and plants that travel by the “wind.”Supported by I Kadek Dwi Armika
■Urakawa Taishi
［Residency Period: Jul.1-Dec.25, 2024］
Born in 1994 in Fukuoka, Japan. With the theme of “contemporary landscape painting (perspective),” Urakawa creates paintings combining gradient lines and images found on the Internet. Currently the artist is planning to make a new piece for the exhibition scheduled in December, which is focused on the Hakata-bei, the traditional earthen walls.
■Kamimura Takahiro
［Residency Period: Jul.1-Dec.25, 2024］
Born in 1980 in Kochi, based in Fukuoka. While tackling the question, “What is sculpture?” Kamimura uses everyday objects or “trivial” found objects that he kept close and spent time with in his sculpture works. In this residency, the artist plans to reconsider his workplace or the meaning of being an artist by giving alternative functions in his studio.
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