DESCRIPTION
These photographs were taken in order to consider and see what happened in my mother's house after the terrible earthquake on 11th March in 2011. The house was located in a city near the center of the shock. Everyone asked me with all their goodness “Are you OK? ” The fact must have meant I was OK; I experienced neither the earthquake nor the aftermath in the disaster area, my family was not killed and my parents' homes were not carried away by tsunami and still standing where they had been. Every time I was asked, I lied and hurt myself worse. This didn't happen to me only because there were many people not having special relations to the disaster regions who were in so low spirits that they fell into depressions. This syndrome was called the earthquake's causing depression.
After two months, I stood up to launch my work to face those continuous events and a real experience of my own with all my grief and gratitude to our life. I continued to observe the house with anxiety and relief for a year.
AUTHOR
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.
(b)1986, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
[Education]
2012 MFA, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
[Selected Solo Exhibitions]
2015 “HOME works 2015”, Tokyo Wonder Site SHIBUYA, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “HOME works 2011”, Gallery NIW, Tokyo, Japan
[Selected Group Exhibitions]
2015 “Shibuya Egg”, Shibuya Ward Office, Tokyo, Japan
2015 ISSP2015 Final Exhibition, Kuldiga Town Exhibition Hall, Kuldiga, Latvia
2014 TOKYO WONDER WALL 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2012 New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2012, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
[Seleceted Awards]
2016 Selection: The 14th “1_WALL” Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Fellowship: ISSP2015, The Town Government of Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
2014 Selection: TOKYO WONDER WALL 2014, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Honorable Mention award: Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2012, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Second award: Asahi Advertising Award, Tokyo, Japan
[Selected Other Activities]
2015 Contribution: catalog ”European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today vol.17”, EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee
2015 Presentation: The 12th Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology, Miyagi University of Education, Miyagi, Japan
2015 Participation: ISSP2015 “Human Nature” By Anna Fox, in cooperation with Andrew Bruce, Kuldiga, Latvia
