Artist

NISHIO Yoshinari

Exhibition (Installation Art), Workshop

photo: KUTSUNA Koichiro, Arecibo

Laundry of the Senses

Focusing on laundry as a daily act in the life, the artist will organize a creative workshop that aims to recapture a series of practices associated with laundry. A documentation of the workshop and the artwork depicting the reconstruction of laundry practices will also be exhibited.

Diorama production: SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, College of Systems Engineering and Science, Department of Systems Architectural Design Information Systems Lab, and others Architecture and Environment

Profile

NISHIO Yoshinari

NISHIO was born in Nara Prefecture, Japan, in 1982. He lives and works in Nara. After obtaining a Ph. D. in Fine Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2011, Nishio stayed in Nairobi, Kenya for two years as a grantee of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. He currently works as a Junior Associate Professor at Nara Prefectural University. His works have consistently referred to relationships between fashion and communication, as he has developed art projects with the cooperation of citizens and students around the world. Based on his unique long-term study of clothing through the lens of a contemporary artist, he set up his own fashion label FORM ON WORDS. He has been active in planning and organizing art projects that link Africa and Japan.

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