- Sans room「べべ」／2021
Shiori Watanabe
渡辺 志桜里
- ART EXHIBITION
Born in 1984. Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2017. With wholeness as the main axis, he focuses on the phenomena of individual gatherings and the boundaries of the bodies involved in them.
His installation work "Sunroom" (2018-), in which fish, vegetables, objects and microorganisms are arranged separately in circulating water, is "Dyadic Stem" (curated by Yu Takagi, The 5th Floor, 2020), "Bebe" (solo exhibition, curation: Chim↑Pom, WhiteHouse, 2021), and "Water Ripples Exhibition 2021". (Shibuya Ward Office Mitake Branch Office, 2021 / Watari Museum of Art), and is still developing while developing each time. In addition, just as water drawn from the moat of the Imperial Palace was used for circulating water in the early days of the "Solarium", at first glance it deals with issues such as ecosystems and the body, but it also incorporates a unique perspective on the political emperor system. We are exploring the ideal form of ecology that includes human society by linking issues such as capitalism and globalism hidden in individual species such as native and alien species found in the ecological field with themes such as reproduction and feminism.
Shiori Watanabe (b.1984-) is a contemporary artist based in Tokyo. She graduated from the Department of Sculpture in the faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015, and from the graduate school of Fine Arts in 2017. Shiori Watanabe has expressed her unique[/distinct] worldview in recent shows; "Dyadic Stem" at the 5th Floor (a two-artists show with Shinjiro Watanabe), "Non-Human Control" at TAV G ALLERY in 2020, and “Bebe” at Whitehouse in 2021, the first solo exhibition curated by Ryūta Ushiro, a member of artists collective Chim↑Pom.
Shiori Watanabeʼs signature installation work "Sunroom" was made in 2017 to maintains the life of organisms that could continue even after the human extinction. In its making, she collected plants, fish, bacteria, etcetera from the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which used to be a playground in her childhood, and brought them back to her studio. She then separated them into different tanks, connecting them together by water circulation tubes. "Sunroom” thereby functions as an automatic ecosystem, and has been updated since 2017 onward. The decentralised networking, and horizontal movement of water circulation characteristic of "Sunroom” uniquely critiques hierarchical political apparatus, and addresses feminism.
Shiori Watanabe_CV
SHIORI WATANABE_CV
His installation work "Sunroom" (2018-), in which fish, vegetables, objects and microorganisms are arranged separately in circulating water, is "Dyadic Stem" (curated by Yu Takagi, The 5th Floor, 2020), "Bebe" (solo exhibition, curation: Chim↑Pom, WhiteHouse, 2021), and "Water Ripples Exhibition 2021". (Shibuya Ward Office Mitake Branch Office, 2021 / Watari Museum of Art), and is still developing while developing each time. In addition, just as water drawn from the moat of the Imperial Palace was used for circulating water in the early days of the "Solarium", at first glance it deals with issues such as ecosystems and the body, but it also incorporates a unique perspective on the political emperor system. We are exploring the ideal form of ecology that includes human society by linking issues such as capitalism and globalism hidden in individual species such as native and alien species found in the ecological field with themes such as reproduction and feminism.
Shiori Watanabe (b.1984-) is a contemporary artist based in Tokyo. She graduated from the Department of Sculpture in the faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015, and from the graduate school of Fine Arts in 2017. Shiori Watanabe has expressed her unique[/distinct] worldview in recent shows; "Dyadic Stem" at the 5th Floor (a two-artists show with Shinjiro Watanabe), "Non-Human Control" at TAV G ALLERY in 2020, and “Bebe” at Whitehouse in 2021, the first solo exhibition curated by Ryūta Ushiro, a member of artists collective Chim↑Pom.
Shiori Watanabeʼs signature installation work "Sunroom" was made in 2017 to maintains the life of organisms that could continue even after the human extinction. In its making, she collected plants, fish, bacteria, etcetera from the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which used to be a playground in her childhood, and brought them back to her studio. She then separated them into different tanks, connecting them together by water circulation tubes. "Sunroom” thereby functions as an automatic ecosystem, and has been updated since 2017 onward. The decentralised networking, and horizontal movement of water circulation characteristic of "Sunroom” uniquely critiques hierarchical political apparatus, and addresses feminism.
Shiori Watanabe_CV
SHIORI WATANABE_CV
