Megumi Morimoto
12 Oct 2024 - 4 Nov 2024(Sat, Sun, Mon Only)
We are pleased to announce the third exhibition at “Ku-kan,” a solo exhibition by Megumi Morimoto.
In her early career, Megumi Morimoto’s main medium of expression was painting, but in recent years, she has expanded her artistic practice to include clay figurines, animation, and drawings.This exhibition, titled “Earthenware with Deposits,” will focus on earthenware fired in her garden.
The earthenware fired in the garden has soil, grass, and other materials rooted or attached to it. Its appearance continues to change as soil, grass, and other attachments interact with it on a daily basis.In this exhibition, we will treat these earthenware with deposits pieces as ”Artworks” .
Earthenware made thousands of years ago is sometimes unearthed in changed forms. The land where the earthenware is excavated becomes an archaeological site and gains significance.
Similarly, the works in this exhibition may one day return to the soil, change their forms, and be unearthed thousands of years later.
What role will future generations give to the unearthed artwork? And what name will be given to the land where the artwork was unearthed?
This is Megumi Morimoto’s first solo exhibition in a while. Please look forward to it.
Main visual「EXIST HERE」2024(Photo：Emi Nakamura)
Megumi Morimoto
Born in 1987 in Eniwa, Hokkaido. Graduated from Hokkaido University of Education, Iwamizawa Campus. Around 2006, she began her artistic career, creating paintings that expressed a pre-adolescent sense of self. However, in 2013, she moved to Fukui Prefecture and temporarily paused her activities. In 2017, following the birth of her child and a natural disaster, she moved back to Hokkaido and resumed production in smaller, lighter media such as clay figurines (dogū), animation, and drawing. Her work often references everyday objects and existing artworks to express situations entangled in various times and spaces. Major exhibitions include "Pointed Rock" (Solo Exhibition, Gallery MONMA, 2013), "Inhabiting and Creating: Artists in Hokkaido—From Expression, Body, and Life" (Shinjuku Ganka Gallery, 2013), "Nameless Landscape" (SCARTS, 2019), and "50th Anniversary of the Completion of the Hokkaido Centennial Memorial Tower—Ken Iguchi and 'Builed the Tower from the bottom’” (Otaru Literary Museum, 2020).
Schedule
12 Oct 2024 - 4 Nov 2024(Sat, Sun, Mon Only)
Time
13:00 - 19:00
Place
Ku-kan
Address
Scramble garage 8-1-62 Odorihigashi Chuo-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 060-0041 Japan
(There is no parking at the venue. Please use a nearby toll parking lot.)