Ayaka Endo "The Belief in Spiritual Beings"

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Artists

Ayaka Endo

Ayako Endo, born in 1994, graduated from the Department of Design, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2021, and currently lives and works in Tokyo. While still a student at the university, Endo won the Geidai Design Award and other prizes. She has been steadily gaining recognition, notably for her solo exhibition of her "Kamuy Mosir" series, which was shown at the graduate school's graduation exhibition and was selected for the Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2021 and received an honorable mention (by Onodelayuki). His works have attracted attention not only from the photography and art industries but also from the fashion and culture fields, making him one of the most promising young artists in the future. Endo's photographs, which are based on an animistic view of nature, are characterized by colors and compositions of nature and animals that are far removed from reality, and his approach of blurring the line between nature and artifice through digital processing creates striking images that seem as if we are viewing another world.
　
This exhibition is a follow-up to "Kamuy Mosir" (meaning "dwelling place of the gods" in Ainu language) and was shot mainly in "atusa-nupuri" in Hokkaido, Japan. Atusa Nupuri means a volcano covered with lava and sulfur in Ainu language. What do the viewers feel when they see the images of nature created with an animistic view of nature, which believes that all things are inhabited by spirits, and with human intervention?

Schedule

Sep 22 (Thu) 2022-Oct 2 (Sun) 2022