Ruriko Murayama started working on dyeing by self-study since her late teens, and since late 1990s, she has announced fabric work with sewn silk colored by chemical dyes. With this, she also created 'Beautiful Mess' series, a sculpture made of beds, accessaries and button in different colors, textures and shapes, and it was exhibited at Mori Art Museum, Bologna Museum of Modern Art, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Aomori Museum of Art, Tokyo Metropolitan and Teien Art Museum. 

Murayama's work is completed manually, and conflict between excessive colors has a power to confuse the audience's view. The Garden of Earthly Delights, a new exhibition at Akita Museum of Art consists of her artworks announced during the past ten years, and is the first solo exhibition in Akita. 

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© Ruriko Murayama 
courtesy of the artist and YAMAMOTO GENDAI