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Mio Yamato
(Photos 1-5)
Title: RED DOT (BIO) ※Not for sale
Year: 2020
Medium: Acrylic paint
Location: 1F Entrance
(Photo 6)
Title: REPETITION SPECTRUM (dot)3
Year: 2019
Size: 333×220(mm)
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Location: Guest Room
Artist Statement:
Okinawa is home to numerous sacred places known as Utaki. These sacred places are quietly nestled within the magnificent natural landscape, and are where people have since ancient times offered prayers and expressed gratitude for the life sustained by nature. RED DOT (BIO) draws inspiration from Utaki. Over endless time, layers of earth accumulate, rise from the ocean to form land upon which plants sprout, life takes root, and people live. This process was entrusted to each individual dot and depicted in the entrance space of HOTEL ANTEROOM NAHA.
※Photos 1-5: Photographed by Hyogo Mugyuda
PROFILE
1990 Born in Shiga, Japan.Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
2015 MFA, Kyoto University of Art & Design, Kyoto, Japan.
「”生きるとは何か”という根源的な問いを軸に、自然と人間の関係に注目し、インスタレーションやペインティング作品を展開している。」
Her major solo exhibitions and awards include “Project N74 MIO YAMATO, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, in 2019”, “CAF ART AWARD / Yamaguchi Yumi Prize in 2015” , “ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2015 Tomio Koyama Prize in 2015”, “Fundación Casa Wabi Woman Artist Residency Award 2020 by in 2020”, “SHOIN Art Award / Kyoto University of the Arts”.