Quiet Friends

  • Chie / Born in Japan in 1989.
    In charge of writing stories and the character set, while maiking art and animation with texiles and wool, paper.

    Rei / Born in Japan in 1989.
    In charge of drawing and scene composition. Rei Studied European art at Tama Art University. worked in a traditional Japanese art studio and made hanging scrolls and folding screens. He use traditional Japanese techniques fo illustrations. Such as, Japanese kozo paper, natural pigments, sumi ink, glue, glue made from wheat flour, and naturalgrass dyeing.

07th October -
11th November

The Japanese artist couple Chie and Rei Ito create quiet fairytales with recycled and hand-made Japanese Washi paper. They don't advocate any specific morals or lessons in their storytelling; instead, they let the readers decide what to take away from those otherwise rather simply formulated stories. They believe that stories which are actually complex, multifaceted and engaging often seem to be very simple. In the exhibition Quiet Friends, they told us three such stories with their original paper artwork.