AISHO MIURA ARTS will feature Saya Kubota's recent installation using tracing paper works and LED, in addition, will publish a first artist book about this exhibition.

Saya Kubota was born in Japan and educated at school of Art & Design in University of Tsukuba, Japan. Now she is a graduate student of the department of painting in Tokyo University of the Arts.
Up to now, AISHO MIURA ARTS has presented Kubota’s unique paper works. These works are delicate composition of some parts of Japanese paper or Tracing paper both are singing by incense. Others, Kubota use many media or materials for giving expression to her thoughts, for example, oil painting, photograph and resin, ceramics, LED etc.

Before this exhibition, Kubota joined in “TOKUSHIMA LED ART FESTIVAL 2010” (April 17 – April 25). In this festival, Kubota sold her tracing paper work’s copy and organic vegetables purchased from local farming man, he always sells his vegetables beside large shopping center, and this “shop” was named Night Vegetable Shop (Yoru no Yaoya-san).

This action is given an eye to finding real meaning her works through comparing to vegetables. She said this was so important experience that I came face-to-face with my fears. But Kubota’s works were bought by local people with the vegetables, and she really went to a buyer’s house to look at her work together just beside cooking the vegetables and was invited another buyer’s house to introduce his original method of hanging her work on the wall.

In this exhibition, the gallery presents installation Night Vegetable Shop, specially using original tracing paper works at the residence. Kubota said she want to know feedback from people familiar with Art because her action in Tokushima was happily accepted by people who are not familiar with contemporary art in daily life. Through this experimentation Kubota enhances her creative thought more and more.