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Embers from the Ashes
The 5th Floor (Hanazono Alley)
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Artists
Yin Yuan, Shiori Ono, Sync Shirakawa, Suzuko Miyake
Can we carve out space for the quiet voices in this saturated age?
Four artists—each inspired by their encounters with life and death—invite us
to pause, linger, and listen. Their works resist loneliness and erasure, weaving life and death into a single breath: death testifies to lives once lived, while life carries forward its echoes.
Tracing this intertwined state of being, the artists use fragile yet potent materials—dandelion fluff, bodhi leaves, silk threads, ceramic, metallic fiber and cardboard—to explore the mirrored contours of life and death. Across three adjoining rooms, subtle resonances emerge between the works: soft prayer sculptures by Miyake Suzuko see off the gradual departure of Yin Yuan’s doll house, remnants of Shirakawa Sync’s grandpa find gentle company in the tears wiped by Ono Shiori. They evoke presence within absence, like embers glowing from the ashes.
Four artists—each inspired by their encounters with life and death—invite us
to pause, linger, and listen. Their works resist loneliness and erasure, weaving life and death into a single breath: death testifies to lives once lived, while life carries forward its echoes.
Tracing this intertwined state of being, the artists use fragile yet potent materials—dandelion fluff, bodhi leaves, silk threads, ceramic, metallic fiber and cardboard—to explore the mirrored contours of life and death. Across three adjoining rooms, subtle resonances emerge between the works: soft prayer sculptures by Miyake Suzuko see off the gradual departure of Yin Yuan’s doll house, remnants of Shirakawa Sync’s grandpa find gentle company in the tears wiped by Ono Shiori. They evoke presence within absence, like embers glowing from the ashes.
Schedule | Jul 5 (Sat) 2025-Aug 3 (Sun) 2025 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Jul 5 (Sat) 2025 18:00 - 21:00 | ||||
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| Fee | ¥500 | ||||
| Venue | The 5th Floor (Hanazono Alley) https://the5thfloor.org/  | ||||
| Location | 5F Hanazono Alley, 3-3-9 Ikenohata, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0008 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit 2 at Nezu Station on the Chiyoda line, 10 minute walk from the Ikenohata exit of Keisei Ueno Station on the Keisei Main line, 11 minute walk from the Yamashita exit of JR Ueno Station. | ||||
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