PROFILE

Completed a degree course (Art and Design Studies) at Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduate School in 2006. As an overseas trainee of the Pola Art Foundation she spent time in Mexico City in 2013. Major group exhibitions include “Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial” (Tainan, 2019). She won the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Midtown Award 2011.

DATE

2019

MEDIUM

floor plans from fliers, laminate, acrylic, wood panel, pins

DIMENSIONS

H200×W150×D7cm

STATEMENT

The starting point for my work is the unique atmosphere that dominates modern, homogeneously organized suburban residential areas, and the uncomfortable feeling of the city, people, lifestyle, and so on. Among my representative works is a series that uses the floor plans from real estate flyers and the like as information that has been scraped off. In recent years, I have been developing new techniques such as video installations that consider “color” about physicality and identity in the present age, based on my experiences in the time I spent overseas in Mexico and the Netherlands.

ABOUT MUSIC AND ART

I rarely listen to music while planning a work, but I often listen to up-tempo music to inspire myself during work. I can’t listen to romantic music because I lose my concentration when my emotions are shaken. Among Japanese musicians, I like Sakanaction, Cornelius and Shuta Hasunuma. Younger people are interested in Ohzora Kimishima, uami, and Yukichikasakumen. Also, among Latin American music I really love the band Monsieur Periné and the singer Natalia Lafourcade. Their music allows me to remember the year I spent in Mexico. I think music, which doesn’t have a form but directly shakes the eardrum through the air, is the strongest media. Someday, I hope to create a work that shakes the retina in the same way.

Seiko Yamamoto PLAYLIST