INSTINC presents “Mosaic Triangle” Project 6581 Part 2, an exhibition of recent paintings and objects created at the end of a one residency at INSTINC. Project6581 is a collaboration project between INSTINC(Singapore) and YOUKOBO (Japan) and it involves 8 art professionals from Japan and Singapore. This project creates a unique opportunity for artists from different parts of the world to actively exchange their views and ideas around current issues of cultural identity and globalization.
In “Mosaic Triangle”, two sisters will feature two series of works inspired by their experience during 1 month stay in Singapore. They will show new paintings, paper cutouts, drawings and objects, also recent works.
Aya Murakami's works move between the boundaries of painting, collage, and sculpture, obscuring and reconstructing the subject as she goes along. Through this process, rather than completing the story in the exhibition space, she is more interested in finding a total harmony between the viewpoints that derive from each individual work. Familiar motifs selected by searching a deeply-ingrained personal history, surrounding environments, and the landscape of her thoughts, are given uniformity through color and brush mark. She is striving for a method where, in an instant, a total image becomes visible from the unfurling interconnections of smaller parts. In this show she focuses on an assemblage of color, pattern or motif from personal experience during her stay.
Kaoru Murakami is concerned with identity and how its' structures affected by the hidden history and imagination, or times and geographical position. Her works is inspired by found objects and the words "I am here, and also I am there". The work is presented by a multi-way of approach through collage, object, installation and sound art. During this stay, she is exploring occupation heritages in Singapore, searching for traces of her home country, Japan and UK that she used to live in, and make works through these experiences.
About the artists:
Aya Murakami is born in Paris and lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, MA Fine Art, Oil Painting in 2004. Her recent solo exhibitions include “Fragments of landscape” HARMAS GALLERY Tokyo, “Momentary Landscapes” GALLERY M, Aichi and “Folded Landscape” Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo.
Kaoru Murakami graduated from Chelsea Collage of Art and Design and after went on to Central Saint Martins Collage of Art and Design, obtaining a BA(Hons) Fine Art in 2008. She has exhibited widely in Japan and London. Her works are usually in the form of objects and installation.
Image: © Aya Murakami, INSTINC
