New season of Japanese Creative profiles at new Archipel home presents artist whose work is concerned with technology and nature, most notably for designing new shells for Hermit Crabs:
AKI INOMATA is contemporary artist whose universe revolves around
creating original works with animals and living creatures. Some of her
most distinctive work includes building original “shelter” art pieces
for hermit crabs or creating pieces of material from clothes to give
them to bagworms.
We will follow her to DMM.make AKIBA, a hardware development studio that
hosts the latest 3D printers, laser cutters, among other technologies,
where INOMATA works on her designs. We will then head over to HUNCH, her
studio, before going to Terrada Art Complex, where INOMATA’s work is
showcased as part of the Asian Art Award finalists.
INOMATA will tell us more about her views on living creatures and the
relationships humans hold with their pets and animals, while on a tour a
Intermediatheque, a museum with a focus on natural history born from a
collaboration between Japan Post and Tokyo University.
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