WINDS OF ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2024: Arising from the Margins

Four artists, Bruno Ruiz (Mexico), Sugihara Nobuyuki x Nakamura Ayaka (Nagano), Urakawa Taishi (Fukuoka), and Uemura Takahiro (Fukuoka), participated in the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Artist in Residence Program 2024 (Part 2). During their stay in Fukuoka, the artists visited various places and met new people whose experiences elaborated their artistic expressions and thoughts. By positioning themselves or having their perspective on the realm of marginal or boundary rather than the central, they have been developing their art, which sheds light on conventional systems and publicness in art, and cultures or histories of the locals. What did they gain through their residency? The exhibition, which takes place at the Artist Cafe Fukuoka, features the new works created during their time in Fukuoka.

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Opening Talk
Four artists will talk about their new work in each venue.
Date and Time: Dec. 14, 13:30-15:00
Meeting place: Grand Studio, Artist Cafe Fukuoka
No reservation required, free admission

Perfomance & Talk ーIsola no Mai (Dance of Isora)
An improvisational dance with invited performers from the Buzen Kagura and Primitive Sense troupe, dressed in masks of Azumi Isora, the ancestor of Azumizoku, whom the artists conducted research. Sugihara and Nakamura will give a talk after the performance.
Time: Dec. 22, 14:30-15:30 Impromptu Dance/15:30-16:30 Talk
Venue: Gallery, Artist Cafe Fukuoka
Performers: Sugihara Nobuyuki, Nakamura Ayaka, Kuroda Masayuki, Sato Hiromu, Tsumura Sahi, and Omura Kagurako (Buzen Kagura)
No reservation required, free admission

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Workshop Presentation
This section showcases the works of local primary school students made during workshops organized by the artists and some related materials.
Date: Dec. 12, 2024 – Jan. 7, 2025 / Open Hours: 9:30-19:30 (until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays)
Venue: In front of 7F Asian
Gallery and M8 Lounge (TBD), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Free admission

Bruno Ruiz
Residency Period　2024.10/5- 12/ 25
Born in 1990 in Mexico, based in Mexico City. While working within the collective Red de Reproduccióny Distribución (RRD), he incorporates self-publishing and a kiosk into artistic practice, which examines the autonomy of art in public space. For this exhibition, while making his own network “enabling underground publishing around the globe,” with people passionate about printing, he presents new work based on research about gariban(mimeograph), together with some references.

[Venue: Studio 3]

“Residency presentation at SAM” Singapore Art Museum, (SG) 2024
Photo by Bruno Ruiz

The mimeograph enabling underground publishing around the globe, 2024

Bruno Ruiz| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum(fukuoka.lg.jp)

Sugihara Nobuyuki×Nakamura Ayaka
Residency Period　2024.10/8- 12/ 25
Based in Nagano. Organizer of the annual SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival since 2010. Inspired by Azumizoku, the people of the sea described in Kojiki (the Records of Ancient Matters), they have been researching in several places, including Shikanoshima, Buzen, and Tsushima. They plan to incorporate their encounters and certain things that dwell in these regions into their new installation, representing a boat. Through improvisational dances, the artists wish to evoke memories of the boats by which the Azumizoku had traveled.

[Venue: Gallery]

Akaragashira, 2023

sora of path through the sea – The Boat of Porifera, 2024 2024年

Sugihara Nobuyuki×Nakamura Ayaka| | Fukuoka Asian Art Museum(fukuoka.lg.jp)

Urakawa Taishi
Born in 1994 in Fukuoka, based in Fukuoka city. Under the theme of “contemporary landscape (perspective),” Urakawa creates paintings combining gradient lines and images found on the Internet. The new works for this exhibition reveal Urakawa’s artistic explorations of Hakata-bei (traditional earthen walls), the images of which underwent deconstruction and reconstruction to form a new landscape.

[Venue: Grand Studio]

Multiple Landscapes (Walking Painting), 2023

Preparation Room: A Stretch for the Demolished Wall, 2024

Urakawa Taishi| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (fukuoka.lg.jp)

Kamimura Takahiro
Residency Period　2024.7/1- 12/ 25
Born in 1980 in Kochi, based in Fukuoka. While tackling the question, “what is sculpture?” Kamimura creates sculptures using everyday objects or “trivial” found objects that he kept close and spent long time with. In this exhibition, the artist presents a new installation in which he reconsiders art in public space and the meaning of being an artist by giving alternative functions in his residency studio.

[Venue: Studio 2]

cucumber, 2022

Occupied / Vacant (TBD), 2024

Kamimura Takahiro| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (fukuoka.lg.jp)