WINDS OF ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2024 SONGS OF SKY AND EARTH　

The majority of the human species lives in cities, which occupy less than 1% of the Earth’s surface. What does the future hold as we live in this world, consuming an enormous amount of energy and depriving the lives of animals or plants?
Through their artistic practice, each of the six invited artists from Japan and across the world joining the first period of the 2024 residency program has been responding to the relentless and considerable alteration of the environment caused by human deeds. This exhibition will introduce new creations and ongoing works of the artists, all of whom challenge themselves to create in between the land, sky, past, and the future.

◇Event

Art Round Table
Visitors are invited to hear the talks by the six residency artists, who would share stories about their new artworks made in Fukuoka.
Date: September 15, 14:00-17:00
Venue: Community Space, Artist Cafe Fukuoka
No registration required, Admission Free
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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.

Bookmark of dried flowers, Okunoto Triennale 2017
©Eko Nugroho, Courtesy by ART FRONT GALLERY, Photo by Naka Nohagi

Eko Nugroho| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

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.

” Lost from the 登竜門 (the Dragon Gate)” 2024.

Mahbub Jokhio| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

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.

“Pelodiscus sapiens” 2024.

Rega Ayundya Putri| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

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

Yoh Yasuda “Beanstalk” 2024, I Kedek Dwi Armika “Tapestry stars” 2024.

Yasuda Yoh| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

Fukuoka artists joining a long-term residency between July and December will introduce part of their ongoing work process in this exhibition.

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.

Urakawa Taishi “Multiple Landscapes (Walking Painting)” 2023.

Urakawa Taishi| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

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.

“cucumber” 2022.

Kamimura Takahiro| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

Note: Images are of developing or previous works of the artists.