An exhibition of OH Haji, a textile artist
who received art education in Kyoto and sewing training in Seoul, Korea, is to
be opened in Koganei Art Spot Chateau, Koganei City, Tokyo, from 14 to 29 June,
2014.
According to the caption on its poster, the
exhibition was inspired by OH’s grandmother returning home to the Jeju Island
in 1993 after so many years of having imagined about the island without even locating
it on a map, and by OH herself visiting the island for the first time in 2004
to wear Korean costumes called “chima jeogori” of her mother and grandmother.
The installations including the costumes shown
in the leaflet of the exhibition below will be exhibited. A workshop to “unravel and undo the knots” will
also be held on Sunday, June 22, in the same venue. It is organized as part of a series of
workshops initiated in Western Japan as Breaker Project activities, suggesting OH’s
own way to retrace memories in pursuit of untold memories or memories beyond verbal
description.
Participants of the workshop in Koganei are
requested to bring in old knit wears to be unknitted and encouraged to tell
their individual stories about the wears while unknitting them into balls of
yarns.
MIYARA Eiko’s exhibition “Okinawa - With
Love and Peace” is underway in Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels,
Matsuyama City, Saitama Prefecture.
The artist MIYARA was born in Fukuoka
Prefecture, Kyushu, and started her artistic career in Tokyo in 1958.
Since she moved to Okinawa to live with her Okinawan husband in 1971, just before the islands’ administration was
returned to Japan, she has been painting the oppressed and wretched, especially
women, in Okinawa, Vietnam and other parts of Asia.
Maruki Gallery is holding her exhibition with
moral and financial support from many people in order to remind the historical and
social issues and to raise consciousness about the structural problems Okinawa
is suffering as is represented by the US military bases.
The exhibition is scheduled to continue
until July 12, 2014.
Translated and adapted by FUKUOKA A.A.
from Japanese website:
http://wan.or.jp/art/?cat=2
