A two person show "Bye-bye butterfly. Give a hug, ladybug."
by Ayaïro and Eri Nomura June 8th — June 29th, 2024
Opening Saturday, June 8th from 4:00 - 6:30pm
by Ayaïro and Eri Nomura June 8th — June 29th, 2024
Opening Saturday, June 8th from 4:00 - 6:30pm
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Wada Garou Tokyo Lab. is pleased to announce a two person show 'Bye-bye butterfly. Give a hug, ladybug' by Ayaïro and Eri Nomura. Ayaïro creates works by intertwining landscapes that evoke nostalgia with memories of her own childhood. This exhibition focuses on the everyday scenes surrounding children, which are not often depicted, while tracing the artist's memories. Presented from a perspective that embraces nostalgia and overlooks children's lives, the works convey a feeling of being enveloped in innocent curiosity and warmth. Eri Nomura uses Styrofoam to express the traces of everyday life, marked by the 'stains' of being. The works in this exhibition, with their soft, rounded forms filtered through the artist's perspective, and the traces of children's lives portrayed solely through 'things', each offer the viewer a narrative that invites contemplation on the perspective of children. From those days to the present day, fragments of children's humble and small memories are sure to stimulate the senses of the viewer. ARTIST STATEMENT Ayaïro - Referring to Nomura's idea of 'traces of life', I created my work on the theme of everyday life, which I had not focused on so much before. Based on fragmentary memories, I recreated ordinary everyday scenes from my childhood and objects that were familiar to me at that time. In this show, I dared to portray my everyday life more objectively, leaving out the images of children that I usually depict, which are projections of my own childhood. I look back to the past and express the small daily happiness of those days, something we only realise now that we have become adults. Eri Nomura - In this exhibition, I created sculptures inspired by Ayaïro's work, using traces from ‘children's lives’ as a motif. Before this show, I joined an exhibit of works on the theme of children by coincidence. At that time, I produced works from the perspective of ‘everyday life with children as seen by parents’, but this time I switched the perspective to children and produced works based on the landscape as seen by them. Unlike adult life, children are close enough to face a certain kind of dirt and stain that comes with life. Through this exhibition, I would like to recapture once again the traces of life and the distance from them.
PROFILE Ayaïro (b.1991) Born in Tokyo, studied abroad at the University of British Columbia and got her BA in English from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Having encountered many foreign cultures while studying languages, she became more aware of the land and culture where she was born and raised, and she began to teach herself to paint. With a desire to rediscover her origins, she depicts Japanese landscapes in a pop and nostalgic way, interweaving them with her childhood memories. Selected solo exhibitions: “Gifts from Heaven” 2022 (The Waluso Gallery / London), “Gifts from the Ancient Times” 2023 (Galerie Zberro / Paris), “Summer memories” 2023 (Contemporary Tokyo / Tokyo), “The Sun Goes Down” 2023 (Nara Tsutaya Books, Nara), "！" 2024 (Contemporary Tokyo / Tokyo & Beijing) And more. Awards: 2020 The Choice of the Year Award – Award of Excellence (hosted by the Japanese magazine “Illustration”) Eri Nomura
Born in Tokyo in 1990, got her MFA in sculpture from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019. She creates cute, pop sculptures by deforming the marks and dirt that life leaves behind. Her works concentrate on what appear to be the traces of people that are erased in real life. Currently, alongside being artist, she directs clay workshops for children to make art more accessible. Selected exhibitions: Solo exhibition “Dirt is also part of the body” 2023 (WADA GAROU TOKYO Lab & AMMON TOKYO, Tokyo), “The 27th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art Exhibition” 2024 (Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Kanagawa), Group exhibition “KODOMO CIBONE” 2024 (CIBONE, Tokyo) And more. INFORMATION
A two person show by Ayaïro and Eri Nomura June 8th – June 29th, 2024 Tuesday – Saturday 1:00 – 6:30pm WADA GAROU TOKYO Lab. Matsuzawa 8 Bldg. 3F, 3-5-16 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 |
