Signals #14 Sohei Nishino
study of anchorage I have been working on the works which relate to the act of moving and walking. For me, the restriction of movement under corona virus forced me to think about the true nature of my creation itself. 4 years ago, I have moved my studio which located…
Signals #10 Sixte Kakinda
Monologue I think that monologue and hatching have something in common: movement. And maybe also bursting or some sort of scattering. The monologue allows you to come face to face with yourself or two others yourself to discuss and reflect on a subject such as the current pandemic. The direction…
Signals #09 Nina Roussière
Nina Roussière Interaction between the signs that I trace, what this intention imparts to me, what I impart in written form, and which defines calligraphy. Between the instinct and the codes, the technique; escape from the codes of representation and interpretation by a protocol of constraints, by a process of…
Signals #08 Dy Tagowska
The present state is a kind of blessing to me. I protest against naming what was previously as “normality”. The formulas of the economy of growth and capitalism itself have been depleted. I miss travelling a little bit, remembering that tourism is also part of over-exploitation. The Pyramids or…
Signals #05 Takehito Koganezawa
Lately, I’ve been making frequent walk to the river in my neighborhood. People were having a good time on the riverbank, and it was peaceful. The areas of each individual are subtly overlapping, and although invisible to the eye, the colors are mixed together. Takehito Koganezawa Born in 1974 in…
Signals #04 Xu Jiong
“ShanShui”（山水: landscape）Xu Jiong Life, for many people, can be divided into “before 2020” or “after 2020”. However, it has not changed that much for me after 2020. I stay at home, I read, I write, I drink tea, I grow flowers. I envy a friend who lives in the west…
Signals #02 Dayana Lucas
“Sings and Bleeds” Dayana Lucas 50x65cm, sumi-e paper 80gsm, dragon’s blood ink and brush photo © Dinis Santos These two drawings were made last year with “dragon’s blood”, the inner liquid of an endemic tree called “Dragoeiro” (Dracaena Draco*) of Macaronésia region (Madeira, Açores, Canarias and Cabo Verde). This inner…
Drawing Orchestra
Drawing Orchestra Performers: Hiraku Suzuki, Daijiro Ohara, Naha Kanie, Sohei Nishino, Saori Hala, Mineki Murata, Yang02, BIEN February 2(Sun) 2020 15:00－16:30 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Auditorium Filming and editing: Yoi Suzuki “Drawing Orchestra” was invented by Hiraku Suzuki and Daijiro Ohara. Eight performers from different backgrounds such as…
Day Drawing by Sohei Nishino
Having been working on the series “Diorama Map” for past 13 years and walking around the cities, I gradually realized that to be a city from one place within a long elapsed time, various elements have been passing by and with the piles of organic human’s walk, cities have been…
