Collective painting

  • (b.1996, Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese visual artist/designer specialising in stop-motion animation and textile design. Her artistic explorations aim to discover ethical way of artistic creation with playful and humorous combinations of colours and materials. Inspired by Norway's rich textile craft and knitting culture, her works reflects this influence. She emphasises the matelialities of textile and paper as an artistic practice and engages with the roles of visual communication for discussions of sustainability and ethics. Her approach to artistic research is characterised by interdisciplinary and multicultural studies, enriching her narratives with diverse perspectives and contexts.

Litteraturhuset i Bergen

3th February / 13:00 - 16:00

Although American-style 3D animations dominate our children’s TV nowadays, Japan still keeps the 2-dimensional look in its anime and manga. This has something to do with the traditional Japanese aesthetic. There are a bunch of theories out there. One of them said that Japanese realism is always based on ignoring the distance between the objective observer and the subject being observed, for example, watching birds and insects or facial expressions as if they are right in front of the observer.

Starting from this idea, the Japanese artist Haruna Inagaki led a workshop where a group of family cooperate to make a big drawing together on a piece of plywood using lines and forms that we trace from the texture of the wood plate.

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