Artist
Artist
OKUNAKA Akihito
Japan
INTER-WORLD/Cocooner: Apparent motion of celestial bodies
奥中章人の作品は、空気・水・太陽の関わり合いによって生まれる地球環境に起こる現象を増幅させる柔らかい彫刻です。作家は「人は空気や水や太陽に似ている」と考え、作品を通して私たちと世界との関係性を視覚的・体感的に提示します。 作品名「Cocooner」は俗語で、繭に引きこもる人を連想させます。社会に暗雲が漂う中、奥中は人類全体が人新世という人の業が生み出した繭に囚われているのではないかと問いかけます。 旧態依然とした人間中心主義の繭から脱皮し、より宇宙的な必要存在として人が羽ばたくことを願う作家の思いが込められています。
Profile
Akihito Okunaka was born in 1981 in Kyoto Prefecture, where he is currently based. He is an artist, co-director of AOIoA, and head of the Experiential Art Course at the Yamashiro Cultural Center in Kizugawa City, Kyoto Prefecture.
After graduating from the Shizuoka University Department of Education, Okunaka specialized in art education for children and worked as an instructor at the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art and at facilities for disabled people, teaching art and play. Okunaka then studied modern and contemporary theory before becoming an artist. He has received grants from the Nomura Foundation and the Asahi Shimbun Foundation, among others, and has dedicated himself to study in France, Korea, and China as a research fellow. With the theme of pursuing the dynamics of people, things, and matters through the lens of water, air, and light, he has held many workshops at regional art spaces around Japan and exhibited large-scale experiential artworks both domestically and internationally as an artist making with the public.
Akihito Okunaka Website
AO Institute of Arts Website
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Credits
Sponsorship:
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc., Yamashiro Art Foundation
Cooperation:
Sumika Sekisui Film Co., Ltd., Teraoka Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hologram Supply Co., Ltd., Kizugawa City Yamashiro Cultural Center Aspia Yamashiro, AOIoA
Collaborators：
Aimo, akira_you, Oscow over the Moon, Yui Kobayashi, Toro, Junna Ashida, Ken Nakamuro, Takayuki Narita, Haruna Noda, Yukiharu Nishikawa, Takeshi Fujiki, Suzuka Funakoshi, Satsuki Yamada, Mizuho Yamamoto, NEO Universe, Shigeo Ozawa, Keita Kojima, Maimi Takayama, Kurumi Mori, Maki Noguchi, In addition, everyone who participated in the production of works at the Co-Creation Open Atelier.
