Furuya Kotomi & Maruyama Satowa "Memory, scale, again & again"
shimokitazawaartsNovember 10 - 26, 2023
1-7pm
Closed on Mon, Tue and Wed.
*Opening reception：Nov. 10, 6-8pm
Anyone can participate in the opening reception.
Shimokitazawa Arts is pleased to present "Memory, scale, again & again" two person exhibition by Furuya Kotomi & Maruyama Satowa. Furuya Kotomi was born in Tokyo, 1997, graduated from painting, Tokyo Zokei University, 2022 and is currently in painting, Graduate School of Tokyo Zokei University. Focusing on cloth, which is a common support for paintings, she has continued to attempt to unravel and modify the structures of daily necessities, mainly cloth. Maruyama Satowa was born in Tokyo, 1999, graduated from sculpture, Tokyo Zokei University, 2022 and is currently in Graduate School of Musashino Art University, Fine Arts Course, Sculpture. She creates works based on her memories and images that come to mind while kneading clay.
Furuya Kotomi uses everyday items such as work gloves, earphone cords, and handicraft thread as materials. And she unravels their structures and creates works that go back and forth between something else and the actual thing. Maruyama Satowa sets a time limit until the clay reaches a certain hardness, and gives form to the memories that come to mind. They also share a common sense of coloring, skillfully using ambiguous tones, and their collaborative works were created so smoothly that even they theirselves are surprised, with each other's materials and ideas complementing each other. Their works are connected as if in a cycle.
This exhibition by the duo, who are preparing for their graduate school graduation exhibition in the new year, will try to create a new memory and scale perspective (= linking to the exhibition title "Memory, scale, again & again") by exhibiting a combination of new and past works. The artists theirselves will encounter their own works that they have never seen before, and for the viewers it will be an experience that changes the resolution of their daily lives and brings a little freshness to their daily lives. Please take a look at the history and future prospects of Furuya Kotomi and Maruyama Satowa's quest that began with their daily lives.
Furuya Kotomi
1997 Born in Tokyo
2022 BFA of Painting, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
2023 currently in painting, Graduate School of Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
Favorite painter / painter influenced by：Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Hitsuda Nobuya, Naito Rei, Bruno Munari, Wolfgang Tillmans
Solo exhibition
2023 "Fold your fingers and count one" JINEN GALLERY , Tokyo
2022 "Go by traverse" JINEN GALLERY, Tokyo
2021 "Darn and figure out soon" JINEN GALLERY, Tokyo
2020 "Winter comes crawling from summer" JINEN GALLERY, Tokyo
2017 "New album" GalleryKAZANE, Tokyo
Group exhibition
2023
"After Pretending" Fuchu Art Museum, Civic Gallery, Tokyo
2022
"SKIN IS" Sagamihara Citizen's Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
"Pseudonym Exhibition" Musashino Art University, Tokyo
“The 3rd. exhibition of the Future for Hanging Scroll and Painting" Kakushokaku, Sankeien garden, Kanagawa, Japan
Live painting by Furuya Kotomi｜Harue "Inside and outside, protected, connected, repeated, creating opportunities" Gallery&Space TATSUMI, Tokyo
2021
"where is the Ghost?" Rental house private, Tokyo
2019
"thermo #2" Yellow House Nihonbashi, Tokyo
CSLAB EXHIBITION "SLIDE Vol.01" ZOKEI GALLERY, Tokyo
2018年
"thermo" mime, Tokyo
Award
2022 Tokyo Zokei University Graduation Research and Graduation Work Exhibition 2021, ZOKEI AWARD, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
Other activities
2023 Art assistant for the stage play “Ganryujima”, Meijiza, etc., Japan
2016 Art/Photography for Musabiru! 2016, theatrical production, Shibafu “He/She/They: The Tour for Seven Wonders of School” Higashi Yamato Fifth Junior High School, Tokyo
Artist statement
As a starting point for paintings, I explore the existence of cloth in daily necessities such as clothes and curtains, and unravels the structure of these objects. While working with various techniques such as cloth and paint, cloth and embroidery, and cloth and the body, I move between categories of expressive media and changes the methods and structures of paintings, clothing, and handicrafts according to my own sensibilities.
Am I questioning the existing value of the work based on its fixed form, or trying out a new method for creating a painting structure that I can decide for myself ?
Maruyama Satowa
1999 Born in Tokyo
2022 BFA of Sculpture, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
2023 currently in Graduate School of Musashino Art University, Fine Arts Course, Sculpture, Tokyo
Favorite painter / painter influenced by：Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Maruyama Taro, Richard Tuttle
Solo exhibition
2023 "Spoon swimming in plate" JINEN GALLERY , Tokyo
2022 "Lullaby to Hyakurai" JINEN GALLERY , Tokyo
"Kurukuru Flashback" bizarre plants , Tokyo
2021 "Intervertebral discs and neoteny" JINEN GALLERY , Tokyo
Group exhibition
2023
"Tenowa morinonaka museum" Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi-Kokubunji Park, Tokyo
"Where the Toes Are Headed" HIGURE17-15cas, Tokyo
"Asterism" Musashino Art University, Tokyo
"JAM" KOGANEI ART SPOT Chateau 2F, Tokyo
"After Pretending" Fuchu Art Museum, Civic Gallery, Tokyo
2022
"Pseudonym Exhibition" Musashino Art University, Tokyo
"Dog full of cups" Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2021
"Art program in Kakurinji - Semijikan vol.5 ", Kakurinji-temple, Hyogo, Japan
"Samsa" RANZAN STUDIO, Saitama, Japan
2020年
" Winning Works Exhibition of Yume Biennial Public Contest" Hachioji Yume Art Museum, Tokyo
2019
"Art Generation vol.18" Fuji City Cultural Center, Rose Theatre gallery, Shizuoka, Japan
"LOVE & Nature" Little house GALLERY, Gifu, Japan
"cycle" Tokyo Zokei University CS gallery, Tokyo
Award・Scholarship
2020
Sasaki Taiju Scholarship Foundation, Tokyo
Yume Biennial Public Contest Winner, Hachioji, Tokyo
2019
Sasaki Taiju Scholarship Foundation, Tokyo
Art Generation vol.18 Winner, Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan
Artist statement
By setting a time- limit until the clay dries, I create an opportunity to confront my own memories. By performing the act of remembering and moving the hands at the same time, an unexpected form is recorded in the clay.
In recent years, in addition to ceramics, I have focused on cooking utensils, daily necessities, and other forms made to suit human activities, and have incorporated them into my works.
