SPACE:2 SAYOKO SUWABE

Exhibition dates. 21 Feb - 3 March , 2023
Opening Reception : Thursday 22 Feb 2024, 6:00 - 8.30pm

Sayoko Suwabe

Born in Chiba, Japan in 1995. Graduated from the Oil painting BFA program, at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019 and completed the Global Art Practice MFA program at TUA. She won “Salon de Plantin Prize” for her Graduation Exhibition 2017 and “GAP award” for her master's Graduation Exhibition 2022.

She mainly creates installation works and also broad media such as performance and sculpture. The focus of her artistic practice is an interpretation of contemporary phenomena/preconceptions through the construction of models. She also works at the artist collective 'Practical Archaeology' 'NULLNULL STUDIO' She finished the exchange at the MCA course at Victorian College of the Arts and is based in Tokyo/Melbourne.
Currently, she is in the PhD program at the Tokyo University of the Arts.

https://www.sayokosuwabes.com/

UNCERTAIN CONTOURS OF IMAGES

"Uncertain Contours of Images," a solo exhibition Sayoko Suwabe, which challenges traditional perceptions of art in a digitally saturated world. Suwabe argues that paintings are not static entities, but dynamic products of image processing and interpretation, their essence is in evolving with emotions, ideas, and memories. The exhibition explores the interplay between materiality and immateriality in paintings, considering their physical existence alongside digital forms. Her installation consists of performances, paintings, videos, immersing viewers in a contemplation of art's fluidity within consciousness, blurring reality and imagination. The works are created during the residency program at Bundanon and BigCi in NSW.

By challenging preconceived notions and encouraging active engagement, it seeks to foster a deeper appreciation for paintings’ transient and ever-evolving nature in an increasingly digital world.

This exhibit will be held with support from the Nomura Art Foundation and the Pola Art Foundation. 

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